Colonial Voices: A Cultural History of English in Australia, 1840-1940 by Joy Damousi

Colonial Voices: A Cultural History of English in Australia, 1840-1940

Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories

Joy Damousi

326 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history

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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 ...

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