This book presents an in-depth fieldwork-based study of the Greek language spoken by immigrants
in Cairns Far North Queensland Australia. The study analyzes language contact-induced changes
and code switching patterns by integrating perspectives from contact linguistics and
interactional approaches to language use and code switching. Lexical and pragmatic borrowing
code mixing discourse-related and participant-related code switching and factors promoting
language maintenance are among the topics covered in the book. The study brings to light
original data from a speech community that has received no attention in the literature and
sheds light on the variation of Greek spoken in diaspora. It will appeal across disciplines to
scholars and students in linguistics anthropology sociology and migration studies.
