Author: Kate Fox
Publisher: Nicholas Brealey
Published: 2014-07-08
Total Pages: 455
ISBN-13: 1857889177
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Updated, with new research and over 100 revisions 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.
Author: Raymond Boyle
Publisher:
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780748635931
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A new study of the link between three key obsessions of the 20th century: the media, sport and popular culture.
Author: Mark Hunter
Publisher: UNESCO
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9230010898
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Peter Narvaez
Publisher:
Published: 2003-07
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Laughter, contemporary theory suggests, is often aggressive in some manner and may be prompted by a sudden perception of incongruity combined with memories of past emotional experience. Given this importance of the past to our recognition of the comic, it follows that some "traditions" dispose us to ludic responses. The studies in Of Corpse: Death and Humor in Folklore and Popular Culture examine specific interactions of text (jokes, poetry, epitaphs, iconography, film drama) and social context (wakes, festivals, disasters) that shape and generate laughter. Uniquely, however, the essays here peruse a remarkable paradox---the convergence of death and humor.
Author: Joanne Shattock
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-03-16
Total Pages: 427
ISBN-13: 110708573X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A comprehensive and authoritative overview of the diversity, range and impact of the newspaper and periodical press in nineteenth-century Britain.
Author: Graeme Burton
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002-09-11
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 1134699697
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The authors cover the essential elements of communication, including communication between individuals and groups, in organizations and through mass media and new technologies.
Author: MICHAEL. MORAN
Publisher:
Published: 2016
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781925333886
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