Watching the EnglishWatching the English
the Hidden Rules of English Behaviour
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Book, 2014
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Current format, Book, 2014, Revised and updated, Available . Offered in 0 more formatsSocial anthropologist Kate Fox's book Watching the English, now in it's second edition, is updated and revised with deeper insights and additional observations into the nature of what it means to be English. With sections devoted to most aspects of English culture and behavior, including the unspoken rules and "bizarre codes of behavior" observed by the English. Kate Fox is CoDirector of the Social Issues Research Centre in Oxford and a Fellow of the Institute for Cultural Research. She has published widely on the subject of human behavior. Annotation ©2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
Updated, with new research and over 100 revisions
Ten years later, they're still talking about the weather! Kate Fox, the social anthropologist who put the quirks and hidden conditions of the English under a microscope, is back with more biting insights about the nature of Englishness. This updated and revised edition of Watching the English - which over the last decade has become the unofficial guidebook to the English national character - features new and fresh insights on the unwritten rules and foibles of "squaddies," bikers, horse-riders, and more.
Fox revisits a strange and fascinating culture, governed by complex sets of unspoken rules and bizarre codes of behavior. She demystifies the peculiar cultural rules that baffle us: the rules of weather-speak. The ironic-gnome rule. The reflex apology rule. The paranoid pantomime rule. Class anxiety tests. The roots of English self-mockery and many more. An international bestseller, Watching the English is a biting, affectionate, insightful and often hilarious look at the English and their society.
The international hit returns with even more wit and insight into the hidden rules that make England English.
Updated, with new research and over 100 revisions
Ten years later, they're still talking about the weather! Kate Fox, the social anthropologist who put the quirks and hidden conditions of the English under a microscope, is back with more biting insights about the nature of Englishness. This updated and revised edition of Watching the English - which over the last decade has become the unofficial guidebook to the English national character - features new and fresh insights on the unwritten rules and foibles of "squaddies," bikers, horse-riders, and more.
Fox revisits a strange and fascinating culture, governed by complex sets of unspoken rules and bizarre codes of behavior. She demystifies the peculiar cultural rules that baffle us: the rules of weather-speak. The ironic-gnome rule. The reflex apology rule. The paranoid pantomime rule. Class anxiety tests. The roots of English self-mockery and many more. An international bestseller, Watching the English is a biting, affectionate, insightful and often hilarious look at the English and their society.
The international hit returns with even more wit and insight into the hidden rules that make England English.
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