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001 2010007104
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008 100218s2010 enka b 001 0 eng
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050 00 $aPE3601$b.D36 2010
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100 1 $aDamousi, Joy.
245 10 $aColonial voices :$ba cultural history of English in Australia, 1840-1940 /$cJoy Damousi.
260 $aCambridge ;$aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c2010.
300 $aix, 315 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
490 1 $aCambridge social and cultural histories
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aColonial 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 colonies speak : speech and accent in the empire, 1920s and 1930s ; Broadcasting the raadio voice ; The advent of the 'talkies' and imagined communities.
520 $a"Colonial Voices explores the role of language in the greater 'civilising' project of the British Empire through the dissemination, reception and challenge to British English in Australia during the period from the 1840s to the 1940s. This was a period in which the art of oratory, eloquence and elocution was of great importance in the empire and Joy Damousi offers an innovative study of the relationship between language and empire. She shows the ways in which this relationship moved from dependency to independency and how, during that transition, definitions of the meaning and place of oratory, eloquence and elocution shifted. Her findings reveal the central role of voice and pronunciation in informing and defining both individual and collective identity as well as wider cultural views of class, race, nation and gender. The result is a pioneering contribution to cultural history and the history of English within the British Empire"--$cProvided by publisher.
650 0 $aEnglish language$zAustralia.
650 0 $aEnglish language$xDialects$zAustralia.
650 0 $aEnglish language$xVariation$zAustralia.
650 0 $aEnglish language$zAustralia$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aEnglish language$zAustralia$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aEnglish language$xSocial aspects$zAustralia.
650 0 $aAustralianisms.
830 0 $aCambridge social and cultural histories.
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