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Colonial Voices: A Cultural History of English in Australia, 1840-1940 (Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories)
Colonial Voices A Cultural History of English in Australia 18401940 - Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories
Author: Joy Damousi
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 emp...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780521516310
ISBN-10: 0521516315
Publication Date: 7/26/2010
Pages: 326
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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