Ebook: Watching the English: the hidden rules of English behaviour

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.