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- Draws on research into language contact, competition, and maintenance, and discusses the factors that determine these processes
- Contextualizes a single, previously unresearched case study as part of the spread of colonial languages in Latin America
- Assesses the different colonial experiences of Spanish and English on the South American continent
- Hypothesises that the vitality of Spanish in the face of the spread of English can be partly explained by its high value of solidarity among speakers
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Minority Languages and Communities (PSMLC)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
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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Authors and Affiliations
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University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland
Danae Perez
About the author
Danae Perez is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. Her research interests include contact linguistics, creolistics, language typology, and linguistic anthropology.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Language Competition and Shift in New Australia, Paraguay
Authors: Danae Perez
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Minority Languages and Communities
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24989-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-24988-5Published: 06 November 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-24991-5Published: 06 November 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-24989-2Published: 24 October 2019
Series ISSN: 2947-5880
Series E-ISSN: 2947-5899
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 238
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: Minority Languages, Sociolinguistics, Linguistic Anthropology, Latin American Culture, Latin American History