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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 people. 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.
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Watching the English, Kate Fox
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- Année de publication
- 2008
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- Titre
- Watching the English
- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- Kate Fox
- Éditeur
- Nicholas Brealey Publishing
- Publié
- 2008
- Format
- souple
- Pages
- 432
- ISBN10
- 1857885082
- ISBN13
- 9781857885088
- Séries
- Mots clés
- Nonfiction, Sciences sociales, Manuels, Cartes et voyages, Motivation & Bien-être, Dictionnaires et manuels de langue, Voyage, Thèmes psychologiques, Humour, Psychologie, Famille, Amitié, Guides touristiques, États-Unis, Relations, Langues, Maternité et parentalité, Littérature britannique, Sociologie, Manuels de langue, Société, Angleterre, Culture et Société, Vie, Grande-Bretagne, Parentalité, Anthropologie, Londres, Culture, 21e siècle, Relations interpersonnelles, Vie quotidienne, Emploi, Ethnologie, Comportement, éthologie, Météo, Britanniques, Anglais
- Évaluation
- 3,9 sur 5
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- 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 people. 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.