Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour
by Kate Fox
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Author: Kate FoxEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-04-02
ISBN: 1857885082
Number of pages: 440
Publisher: Nicholas Brealey Publishing
Summary of Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour
A runaway bestseller in the UK, Watching the English is now available in the U.S. for the first time! Witty and wise, Kate Fox reveals the quirks, habits, and foibles of the English in her book Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour. Putting the national character under her microscope, Fox explores this strange and fascinating culture, governed by a complex set of unspoken rules and a bizarre code of conduct. Through anthropological analysis and a series of unorthodox experiments (often using herself as a reluctant guinea-pig), Fox discovers what these unwritten codes tell us about Englishness: the rules of weather-speak, the ironic-gnome rule, the reflex apology rule, the paranoid-pantomime rule, class anxiety tests, and the money-talk taboo, among others. Watching the English is a biting, affectionate, insightful, and often hilarious look at English society.Great Britain Books
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