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.
Danae Perez is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. Her research interests include contact linguistics, creolistics, language typology, and linguistic anthropology.
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.