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Voicing the ‘Other’: Reading and Writing Indigenous Australians

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In this chapter I will look briefly at interdisciplinarity in the context of cross-cultural communication. The communication I’m interested in is between Indigenous peoples and European settlers in contemporary Australia — specifically, the ways in which the settlers’ voice represents the voice of the Indigenous ‘other’.

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  1. Jim R. Martin
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  1. Politics and Identity at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Research Associate at the Research Centre for Discourse, Netherlands

    Gilbert Weiss PhD (Social and Economic Sciences) (Social and Economic Sciences)

  2. Director of the Research Centre for Discourse, University of Vienna, Austria

    Ruth Wodak (Professor of Applied Linguistics) (Professor of Applied Linguistics)

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Martin, J.R. (2003). Voicing the ‘Other’: Reading and Writing Indigenous Australians. In: Weiss, G., Wodak, R. (eds) Critical Discourse Analysis. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230514560_10

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