โ Scribed by Fox, Kate
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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 features a new foreword and fresh chapters 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 money-talk taboo, and many more. An international bestseller, Watching the English is both an incisive and hilarious look at the English and their society.;Introduction: Anthropology at home -- Conversation codes -- The weather -- Grooming-talk -- Humour rules -- Linguistic class codes -- Emerging talk-rules: -- The mobile phone -- Pub-talk -- Behaviour codes -- Home rules -- Rules of the road -- Work to rule -- Rules of play -- Dress codes -- Food rules -- Rules of sex -- Rites of passage -- Conclusion: defining Englishness.
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