British picture of the world

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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