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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