Watching the English

the hidden rules of english behaviour

Sachbuch

• FS.E : Fremdsprachige Schriften : Einzelne Sprachen : Englische Schriften
• EL.EG : Reisen, regionale Geographie, Landeskunde : Europa : Großbritannien, Irland

Verfasser:
Fox, Kate

Verfasser Angabe:
Kate Fox

Sprache:
Englisch

• Englisch
• Engländer
• Verhalten

Verlag:
Hodder and Stoughton

Erscheinungsort:
London

Jahr:
2004

Umfang:
424 S.

Fußnote:
Text: Englisch

ISBN:
978-0-340-75212-8

Inhalt:
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.