SOCIOCULTURAL FACTORS OF THE CONCEPT OF ARROGANCE FORMATION IN BRITISH WORLD VIEW

Abstract

This article presents the analysis of socio-cultural aspect of the concept of ARROGANCE in the British world view. The features of the British world view and mentality has been considered, as well as the factors influencing their formation. As the concept of ARROGANCE is the essential part of British world view and one of the hallmarks of the British mentality, it reflects the historical development and cultural life of the British community. The article investigates the concept of ARROGANCE verbalization under the influence of such sociocultural factors as national ideology, class stratification and imperial policy. The ways of representation of the concept of ARROGANCE are demonstrated with the examples from fiction and mass media as well as modern speech samples and slang. The examples of lexical and phraseological units reflecting the main aspects of arrogance in British culture have been selected and analyzed. Arrogance based on the class inequality through the prism of historical changes in the class structure of the British society. The layer of vocabulary that reflects the arrogance of the upper classes of society to the lower ones has been distinguished. The article also provides several samples of slang lexemes and phrases used to express superiority in the youth subcultures. Arrogance based on the national mentality was formed under the influence of the colonial policy of the British Empire, as well as the biased attitude of the British to the inhabitants of the continent. It is verbalized by means of national insults and jokes. Linguistic arrogance is connected to the class inequality, since language indicates belonging to certain class and social group. The analysis of the verbalization of the concept of ARROGANCE enables us to establish the peculiar sociocultural features of it in the British world and and outline the prospects for its further study.