Language Competition and Shift in New Australia, Paraguay

• Main Author: Perez, Danae (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Minority Languages and Communities
• Subjects: Linguistic minorities.; Sociolinguistics.; Linguistic anthropology.; Ethnology-Latin America.; Latin America-History.; Minority Languages.; Linguistic Anthropology.; Latin American Culture.; Latin American History.

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 l...

Table of Contents:

• 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.