Image of the Teacher as a Main Participant of the "Conducting a Class" Scenario in the Linguistic Consciousness of Chinese and Russians

This article is devoted to a comparative analysis of the images of the teacher as a main participant of the cognitive scenario "conducting a class" in the linguistic consciousness of Chinese and Russians. The primary method of this study is the associative experiment. On the basis of the results of an associative experiment and the Russian Associative Dictionary, the associative fields of the Chinese stimulus-word "jiaoshi" (teacher) and the Russian stimulus-words "uchitel'" (teacher, school teacher), "prepodavatel'" (teacher, lecturer) were formed and analyzed, and the Chinese and the Russian "conducting a class" scenarios were constituted and compared.