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Colonial Voices - A Cultural History of English in Australia, 1840-1940 (Hardcover, New)
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Colonial Voices - A Cultural History of English in Australia, 1840-1940 (Hardcover, New)
Series: Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories
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Colonial Voices explores the role of language in the greater
'civilising' project of the British Empire through the
dissemination and reception of, 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 Joy Damousi offers an
innovative study of the relationship between language and empire.
She shows the ways in which this relationship moved from dependency
to independence and how, during that transition, definitions of the
meaning and place of oratory, eloquence and elocution shifted. Her
findings reveal the central role of voice and pronunciation in
informing and defining both individual and collective identity, as
well as wider cultural views of class, race, nation and gender. The
result is a pioneering contribution to cultural history and the
history of English within the British Empire.
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