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.
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2 Language Contact and Competition in Latin America |
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2.1 Languages in Competition: Do Languages Exterminate Each Other? |
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2.2 English in Latin America |
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2.3 New Australia as a Case in Point |
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3 Approaching New Australia from Within and Without |
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3.1 Representations of New Australia in Journalistic Reports |
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3.2 As a Researcher in Nueva Australia |
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4.1 The Inception of New Australia |
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4.2 Paraguay: The ``Promised Land``? |
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5 New Australians in Paraguay |
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5.1 Setting Up New Australia |
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5.3 A Word on the Failure of New Australia |
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5.4 New Australia in Retrospect |
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6 Language Shift in New Australia |
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6.1 Language Institutionalization in Nueva Australia and Cosme |
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6.2 The Demographic Development of Nueva Australia and Cosme |
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6.3 The Shifting Status of English and Its Speakers in Nueva Australia |
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6.4 Shifting Values in New Australia |
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6.5 How Exceptional Is Language Shift in New Australia? |
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7 The Role of English in Nueva Australia Today |
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8 Concluding Remarks and Outlook |
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Danae Perez is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. Her research interests include contact linguistics, creolistics, language typology, and linguistic anthropology.
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