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. T...
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.
读得真是好开心啊！400多页的东西一点都不无聊~~全书在讲english humour,hypocrisy,courtesy,讲英国人的down-to-earthness,讲他们的love for words,讲他们的social dis-ease，有些挺准的……其实，这本书本身就是对Englishness的最好论证~Fascinating..
关于该书的内容和可圈可点之处我不想多说，但是阅读过程中让我对译者却产生了不少质疑。 关于书名，原名《Watching English——The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour》，译名《英国人的言行潜规则》（三联书店版）。在这里，English是不是可以跟英国人画上等号？ 严格说来...
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I'm half way through Kate Fox's renowned book about Englishness Watching the English. It's a delightful read: clever, amusing, and very very English. I've been in London long enough to realise that the English are, not surprisingly, a rather restrained, ref...
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Another helpful class-indicator is the siting of what Americans would call your ‘brag wall’. In which room of your house do you display prestigious awards you have won, or photographs of yourself shaking hands with famous people? If you are middle-middle ...
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生活·读书·新知三联书店2010版
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0 有用 花袭人出来玩啊 2011-12-05 20:25:24
有趣。但后来有点重复。某些方面，其实英国人和中国人也差不多，哈？
1 有用 Wingsu 2012-11-22 11:34:49
应该好好解释下为毛外面那么大雨他们都不打伞！
11 有用 c h l 2014-11-15 17:12:43
扭捏作态，虚情假意，阴阳怪气，死要面子活受罪，这奏是英格兰人！（但是从头到尾都好有共鸣好心虚怎么办
0 有用 懒超人 2013-01-27 17:18:44
读得真是好开心啊！400多页的东西一点都不无聊~~全书在讲english humour,hypocrisy,courtesy,讲英国人的down-to-earthness,讲他们的love for words,讲他们的social dis-ease，有些挺准的……其实，这本书本身就是对Englishness的最好论证~Fascinating..
1 有用 [已注销] 2020-07-24 16:14:01
以前买过中文版的，没有太深的印象。那天在waterstone看到重印版的在推荐书架上，就又去学校图书馆借了英文原版的来看。文笔风趣，同时每一小节最后从人类学角度进行分析，科学但不无聊单调。
0 有用 枝里子 2023-07-25 03:50:32 英国
有声书
0 有用 阿简 2023-03-22 10:22:59 上海
大学学术英语老师推荐的书，非常有意思，就是原版书太贵了。
0 有用 吃起来就不好看 2022-08-06 22:13:42
作者怎么总黑Bill Bryson哈哈哈哈哈哈
0 有用 HellwoodWen 2022-02-19 07:13:45
让我想起以前在学校学的京都版日本礼仪 —— 就好像约克郡的礼仪不一定完全适用于大伦敦地区。
0 有用 开心就好的一天 2022-02-16 17:19:22
一个英国人用一本书吐槽自己的国家，这种行为本身就非常英国