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n island – insular spirit – Anglocentrism
The first profound influence upon English is the fact they live on an island (Paxman 1999) Tight little island
The precious stone set in the silver sea
The British have a totally private sense of distance
The sea around and beneath him
The dominion of the sea
The strategic position of Britain as an island
Splendid isolation
To be born on the island is a privilege, but the privilege is evaporating. Every Englishman is an island. Little Englandism,
n Sea
n Ship
To turn adrift – send sb away without help
to cut adrift from – порвати з усіма
To set afloat - бути в повному разгарі
To lay an anchor to windward- знайти тиху гавань
To take in a reef – діяти обережно
To make shipwreck- вмерти, розоритися
To sink or to swim – або пан, або пропав
When my ship comes home – коли я стану багатим
Drink sea dry – to be drunk
n British VS American picture of the world
Follow (get on) the river – to get a job on the river
Get down the river – to be sold to the South
Go up the Salt river –to fail in the elections
Send sb down the river – to put sb to prison
n British picture of the world
Traditions
Country, countrylife
Prosperity
Decency (barbarian wealth, stinking rich, self-made rich)
n Getleman, gentry honour, dignity, integrity, considerateness, courtesy, chivalry, well –born, gentrify
VS Self – Self-starter, self-made man
n Stereotypes of 20th century England:
n Symbols Sandwiches, Christmas cards, Boy Scouts, detective stories are the products made in England.
n Royal family Princess Diana – caring, who represented values of ‘caring, sharing nineties’- Dimania, Dianamania
n Big Ben/ Houses of Parliament
n Englishness
Pubs Robin Hood Cricket Snobbery BBC West end Times newspaper Shakespeare Thatched cottages –Thatcher-Thatcherism Cup of tea Stonehenge
Stiff upper lip Marmalade Oxford/Cambridge
Harrods Gardening Alice in Wonderland Winston Churchill
Queen Victoria Wembley Stadium Public schools The old school tie/ network total
Darby and Joan – a faithful married couple
Mrs Mop – a female house or office cleaner
Miss Smith – clerk
Brown, Jones and Robinson -
Colonel Chinstrap – merry person
n Privacy Exaggerated politeness Communication etiquette Hunting
n Sports Slight laziness sybarites Love to animals Eccentricity
n Key national characters
n JohnBull (ruddy and plump with a pair of cheeks like a trumpeter, honest, plain, choleric, bold, john Bullish, John Bullist, John –Bullism),
n Oliver Cromwell is the Expression of English Noncomformity,
n Shakespeare (The Shakespeare Wonder (Shakespeare’ Universality, Elizabethan Mystery).
n Key national characters
Churchill, Elizabeth I Mary Stuart, Queen Victoria.
Gladstone - a symbolic figure of the 19th century, Disraeli.
n Love-hate relationships with the French (French postcards/prints, take French lessons, the French disease, French gout, French pox, French leave
VS
n earlier it was Spanish pox, Spanish practices- corruption
n In Dutch, Dutch courage
Key National words. Britain
n 1900 -1920 Empire, Britain
n 1920-1930
Edwardian, green revolution, homeownership, good time girl, gold-digger, recessions, redundant, non-violence, televise, mass hysteria, mass murder, social services, underprivileged, senior citizen, social climbing, V.I.P.
n 1940-1950
Welfare state, National health, National Assistance, aid, beat generations,, beatniks, U- and non-U, angry young men, new Elizabethans, gliteratti, Ms
n 1960
Permissive society, meritocracy, four-letter word, hippies, Beatlemania, unisex, alternative society, uppers, downers, eco-, euro-, sexism, ageism
n 1980
Thatcherism, yuppie, monetarism, privatization, choice, dinkies, underclass, enterprise culture, post-feminist, zero-tolerance
n 1990
Blairism, cool Britannia, New Labour, Little Englandism, European integration, Dianamania, New Lad
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