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  Watching the English: Ahe Hidden Rules of English Behaviour (Paperback) By (author) Kate Fox

  

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  Short Description for Watching the EnglishThe hardback bestseller now in paperback: 'An entertaining and clever book. Do read it.' -
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  • Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Paperbacks
  • Published: 11 April 2005
  • Format: Paperback 432 pages
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  • Categories: Popular Culture | Sociology: Customs & Traditions | Guidebooks | Travel Writing | Places & Peoples: Pictorial Works
  • ISBN 13: 9780340818862 ISBN 10: 0340818867
  • Sales rank: 4,727

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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.