Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour [Idioma Inglés]: The Hidden Rules of English Behavior - Tapa blanda

Fox, Kate

 
9781857886160: Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour [Idioma Inglés]: The Hidden Rules of English Behavior
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ISBN 10: 185788616X ISBN 13: 9781857886160
Editorial: Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 2014

Sinopsis

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.. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.

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Acerca del autor

Kate Fox, a social anthropologist, is Co-Director of the Social Issues Research Centre in Oxford and a Fellow of the Institute for Cultural Research. She is also a bestselling author of popular social science. Kate's other books include The Racing Tribe: Watching the Horsewatchers and Drinking and Public Disorder (co-author with Dr Peter Marsh). Kate is regularly invited to speak at the major literary festivals, as well as guest lectures and seminars at universities, institutes, embassies, trade and professional conferences, etc. in the UK and overseas. She gave the Christmas Lecture at the Royal Geographical Society, and won a debate against Boris Johnson for Intelligence Squared, among other high-profile engagements. She is frequently quoted in the Press and interviewed on radio and television. Kate has also been a regular columnist for Psychologies magazine. Kate is married to the neurosurgeon Henry Marsh, CBE.

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Editorial
Nicholas Brealey Publishing
Año de publicación
2014
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
185788616X
ISBN 13 
9781857886160
Encuadernación
Tapa blanda
Número de edición
2
Número de páginas
600
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