The role of the seme analysis in learning national features of semantics of lexical unit

The article is devoted to the seme analysis of the Russian lexeme «учитель» and its equivalents in English and Spanish. The English equivalents are: teacher, educator, school-teacher, schoolmaster, schoolmistress, school-man, tutor, in Spanish - maestro, maestra, maestro de escuela, maestra de escuela, seño, señorita, magíster. The author used the contrastive analysis technique in examining the vocabulary which includes analysis of lexicographical data, component analysis, compilation and description of contrastive pairs. The component analysis in considering lexical units gives an opportunity to show national features of semantics of lexical units.