Innovative study of the role of language in the 'civilising' project of the British Empire in colonial Australia.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Joy Damousi is Professor of History at the University of Melbourne. She has had a long-standing interest in Australian political history, beginning with her first book published twenty years ago on women in left-wing movements, Women Come Rally: Socialism, communism and gender in Australia 1890-1955 (1994). Since then she has written on various aspects of the politics and impact of war, migration and internationalism throughout the Cold War period. Her books include Living with the Aftermath: Trauma, Nostalgia and Grief in Post-war Australia (2001), Freud in the Antipodes: A Cultural History of Psychoanalysis in Australia (2005) and Colonial Voices: A Cultural History of English in Australia 1840-1940 (2010). She is co-editor of Diversity in Leadership: Australian Women, Past and Present (2014).
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction Prologue: from England to empire Part I. Colonial Experience: 1. Civilising speech 2. Eloquence and voice culture 3. Elocution theory and practice Part II. Language Education: 4. Etiquette and everyday life 5. Education 6. Teachers and pupils Part III. Social Reform and Oratory: 7. Social reform and eloquence 8. Speech in war, 1914-18 Part IV. Australian English: 9. The colonies speak: speech and accent in the empire, 1920s and 1930s 10. Broadcasting the radio voice 11. The advent of the 'talkies' and imagined communities Epilogue.
Introduction Prologue: from England to empire Part I. Colonial Experience: 1. Civilising speech 2. Eloquence and voice culture 3. Elocution theory and practice Part II. Language Education: 4. Etiquette and everyday life 5. Education 6. Teachers and pupils Part III. Social Reform and Oratory: 7. Social reform and eloquence 8. Speech in war, 1914-18 Part IV. Australian English: 9. The colonies speak: speech and accent in the empire, 1920s and 1930s 10. Broadcasting the radio voice 11. The advent of the 'talkies' and imagined communities Epilogue.
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