There is considered the metaphoric component of the concept “offence” in the English fiction discourse. The analysis of the figurative constituent of the concept helps to understand its essence as the mental formation where the peculiarity of this or that ethnos is fixed, to consider the way of conceptualization of the world by a human.

There is defined the dandyism in the English culture, analyzed the conceptual and image and perceptive components of the linguocultural type “English dandy”. There is made the supposition concerning the reason for narrowing of the use sphere of the word dandy in the meaning “fashionmonger, fop” in the modern English language

There is regarded the concept offence in the English lexicographic sources. There is given the etymological analysis, investigated the synonyms of the main nominants of the lexeme offence.