Colonial voices : a cultural history of English in Australia, 1840-1940 / Joy Damousi.
Colonial voices : a cultural history of English in Australia, 1840-1940 / Joy Damousi.
Colonial voices : a cultural history of English in Australia, 1840-1940 / Joy Damousi.
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Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Date
2010.
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427.994/94 , N427.994/50
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English
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ix, 315 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Colonial experience. Civilising speech ; Eloquence and voice culture ; Elocution theory and practice -- Language education. Etiquette and everyday life ; Education ; Teachers and pupils -- Social reform and oratory. Social reform and eloquence ; Speech in war, 1914-1918 -- Australian English. The co...
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Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2010.
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"Colonial Voices explores the role of language in the greater 'civilising' project of the British Empire through the dissemination, reception and challenge to British English in Australia during the period from the 1840s to the 1940s. This was a period in which the art of oratory, eloquence and elocution was of great importance in the empire and Jo...
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Colonial voices : a cultural history of English in Australia, 1840-1940 / Joy Damousi.
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Cambridge social and cultural histories.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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427.994/94 , N427.994/50
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74VM0Em75P4b
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VM0Em75P4b
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0521516315 (hardback)
9780521516310 (hardback)
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427.994
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991001779779702626
