Watching the English

Tác giả: Kate Fox

Thể loại: Nonfiction

210.000 VND
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Hodder & Stoughton (11 April 2005)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 424 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0340818867
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0340818862
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13 x 2.8 x 19.6 cm
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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.

The rules of weather-speak. The ironic-gnome rule. The reflex apology rule. The paranoid-pantomime rule. Class indicators and class anxiety tests. The money-talk taboo and many more . . .

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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