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The concluding chapter recontextualizes the lessons learned from the New Australian experiment by looking at the degree to which this case of language shift is extraordinary, as well as at the importance of this type of study for the linguistics of English in general, and for the value and role of English in Latin America in particular. It argues that colonial languages in contact may not follow the expected path of language shift, since in Latin America the allegiance to Spanish is particularly high, and that more ethnographic studies on language choice are needed for a better understanding of the processes of language shift and maintenance in this region of the world and elsewhere.
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Perez, D. (2019). Concluding Remarks and Outlook. In: Language Competition and Shift in New Australia, Paraguay. Palgrave Studies in Minority Languages and Communities. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24989-2_8
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