Contents
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Introduction
Part One: Form
1. I Greet, Therefore I Am
2. Privacy Rules
3. Finding the Yes in Non
4. Schools: The Speech Factory
5. The Family Factor
6. The Art of Conversation
7. Très Talk
Part Two: Content
8. Food for Talk
9. Know-It-Alls
10. Down by Nature
11. Fixation on French
12. English Envy
13. Looking Out for France
14. Economy of Speech
15. Silent Labor
16. Boys and Girls
17.The Poetry of Politics
18. Proof of Identity
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Also by Julie Barlow and Jean-Benoît Nadeau
About the Authors
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