Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour - Softcover

Kate Fox

 
9780340752128: Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0340752122 ISBN 13: 9780340752128
Verlag: Hodder & Stoughton, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

In WATCHING THE ENGLISH anthropologist Kate Fox takes a revealing look at the quirks, habits and foibles of the English people. She puts the English national character under her anthropological microscope, and finds a strange and fascinating culture, governed by complex sets of unspoken rules and byzantine codes of behaviour. Her minute observation of the way we talk, dress, eat, drink, work, play, shop, drive, flirt, fight, queue - and moan about it all - exposes the hidden rules that we all unconsciously obey.

The rules of weather-speak. The Importance of Not Being Earnest rule. The ironic-gnome rule. The reflex apology rule. The paranoid-pantomime rule. Class indicators and class anxiety tests. The money-talk taboo. Humour rules. Pub etiquette. Table manners. The rules of bogside reading. The dangers of excessive moderation. The eccentric-sheep rule. The English 'social dis-ease'.

Through a mixture of anthropological analysis and her own unorthodox experiments (using herself as a reluctant guinea-pig), Kate Fox discovers what these unwritten behaviour codes tell us about Englishness.

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Verlag
Hodder & Stoughton
Erscheinungsdatum
2004
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0340752122
ISBN 13 
9780340752128
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
424
Kontakt zum Hersteller
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Deutschland

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ISBN 10:  0340818867 ISBN 13:  9780340818862
Verlag: Hodder Paperback, 2005
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