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.
Detalles
Formato
Tapa suave
Número de Páginas
238
Lenguaje
Inglés
Editorial
Palgrave MacMillan
Fecha de Publicación
2020-11-06
Dimensiones
8.27" x 5.83" x 0.53" pulgadas
Serie
Palgrave Studies in Minority Languages and Communities
Descripción de Edición
2019
Letra Grande
No
Con Ilustraciones
Si
Temas
América Latina, América Latina
Acerca del Autor
Danae Perez is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. Her research interests include contact linguistics, creolistics, language typology, and linguistic anthropology.
Descripción
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.
Detalles
Formato
Tapa dura
Número de Páginas
238
Lenguaje
Inglés
Editorial
Palgrave MacMillan
Fecha de Publicación
2019-11-06
Dimensiones
8.27" x 5.83" x 0.81" pulgadas
Serie
Palgrave Studies in Minority Languages and Communities
Descripción de Edición
2019
Letra Grande
No
Con Ilustraciones
Si
Temas
América Latina, América Latina
Acerca del Autor
Danae Perez is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. Her research interests include contact linguistics, creolistics, language typology, and linguistic anthropology.
Language Competition and Shift in New Australia, Paraguay
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