Language competition and shift in New Australia, Paraguay / Danae Perez.
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...
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Cham, Switzerland :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- Intro; Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; 1 Introduction; References; 2 Language Contact and Competition in Latin America; 2.1 Languages in Competition: Do Languages Exterminate Each Other?; 2.2 English in Latin America; 2.3 New Australia as a Case in Point; References; 3 Approaching New Australia from Within and Without; 3.1 Representations of New Australia in Journalistic Reports; 3.2 As a Researcher in Nueva Australia; References; 4 Off to New Australia; 4.1 The Inception of New Australia; 4.2 Paraguay: The "Promised Land"?; References.
- 5 New Australians in Paraguay5.1 Setting Up New Australia; 5.2 Cosme; 5.3 A Word on the Failure of New Australia; 5.4 New Australia in Retrospect; References; 6 Language Shift in New Australia; 6.1 Language Institutionalization in Nueva Australia and Cosme; 6.2 The Demographic Development of Nueva Australia and Cosme; 6.3 The Shifting Status of English and Its Speakers in Nueva Australia; 6.4 Shifting Values in New Australia; 6.5 How Exceptional Is Language Shift in New Australia?; References; 7 The Role of English in Nueva Australia Today; References; 8 Concluding Remarks and Outlook.