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Record Nr.

UNINA9910484793203321

Autore

Perez Danae

Titolo

Language Competition and Shift in New Australia, Paraguay [[electronic resource] /] / by Danae Perez

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019

ISBN

3-030-24989-1

Edizione

[1st ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 238 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Palgrave Studies in Minority Languages and Communities

Disciplina

417.7

Soggetti

Linguistic minorities

Sociolinguistics

Linguistic anthropology

Ethnology—Latin America

Latin America—History

Minority Languages

Linguistic Anthropology

Latin American Culture

Latin American History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Language Contact and English in Latin America -- Chapter 3: Approaching New Australia from Within and Without -- Chapter 4: Off to New Australia -- Chapter 5: New Australians in Paraguay -- Chapter 6: Language Shift in New Australia -- Chapter 7: On the Role of English in Nueva Australia Today -- Chapter 8: Concluding Remarks and Outlook.

Sommario/riassunto

This book is an innovative sociolinguistic study of New Australia, an Australian immigrant community in Paraguay in 1893, whose descendants today speak Guarani. Providing fresh data on a previously under-researched community who are an extremely rare case of language shifting from English heritage language to a local indigenous language, the case study is situated within the wider context of the colonial and post-colonial spread of English in Latin America over the past century. Drawing on insights from linguistic anthropology,



sociolinguistics, Latin American studies and history, the author presents the history of the colony before closely analysing the interplay of language and identity in this uniquely diasporic setting. This book fills a longstanding gap in the World Englishes and heritage languages literature, and it will be of interest to scholars of colonial and postcolonial languages, and minority language more generally. Danae Perez is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. Her research interests include contact linguistics, creolistics, language typology, and linguistic anthropology.