多年来,德国律师兼作家德特勒夫·皮尔茨一直在观察英国、英国的生活、习俗,尤其是英国的阶级。他认为,每当一个英国人遇到另一个人时,他们都会立即尝试根据他们的语言、举止、衣着、地址和总体氛围,将与他们交谈的人安排在课堂上。为什么会这样?英语课堂体系在21世纪仍然存在吗?这本书认为它还活着。
皮尔茨研究了渗透在英国社会中的“硬”和“软”等级标记,从英国人度假的地方到他们穿什么、吃什么、开车以及给宠物取什么名字。他解释了“garage”一词的发音方式如何表明你的阶级,并询问仍然谈论英国绅士是否有意义。英国绅士是一种在欧洲大陆备受推崇的人,但却被无限地戏仿和讽刺。
英格兰:它自己的一门课是基于大量的研究和有趣的引语。与Jilly Cooper的课程一样,这本书将给许多人带来乐趣和乐趣。
England: A Class of Its Own: An Outsider’s View
For years German lawyer and author Detlev Piltz has been observing England, its life, customs and above all its classes. He argues that whenever an English person meets another, they will immediately try and place the individual they are talking to in a class by their speech, deportment, clothing, address and general aura. Why might this be, and does the English class system still exist in the twenty-first century? This book argues that it is very much still alive.
Piltz examines the ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ class markers that permeate English society, from where Britons go on holiday to what they wear, eat, drive and what they name their pets. He explains how the way you pronounce the word ‘garage’ indicates your class, and asks whether it makes sense still to talk of the English Gentleman, a species of human being so often admired in continental Europe yet parodied and satirized ad infinitum.
England: A Class of Its Own is based on an incredible amount of research and riddled with amusing quotations. In the same vein as Jilly Cooper’s Class, this is a book that will give pleasure and amusement to many.
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