Since 2016, I have
been working on my habilitation project about Equatorial Guinea. This small,
but culturally and linguistically diverse country in Central Africa, had caught
my attention already many years ago. Within Spanish linguistics, Equatorial
Guinea is of very special relevance: it is the only Spanish-speaking country on
the African continent (besides the politically sensitive case of Western Sahara).
In my habilitation project, I combine my focus on Africa with the topic of
migration: I study the Equatoguinean community in Madrid, Spain, from a
primarily sociolinguistic perspective.
Furthermore, since
February 2021, I’m proud to lead the research project «Improving the visibility
of Equatorial Guinea as a Spanish-speaking country», funded by the Swiss
National Science Foundation. Within this project, M.A. Sara Carreira
is doing her PhD about dialectological features of the Equatoguinean variety of
Spanish. In February/March 2022 we travelled to Equatorial Guinea to collect sociolinguistic and dialectological data in different parts of the country. You can find some impressions about this fantastic research stay on my blog!
My main research interests are in the fields of Postcolonial Sociolinguistics and Dialectology (mainly about Spanish in Africa and Judeo-Spanish), Glottopolitics and Language Ideologies, Language Contacts (both Spanish in contact with other languages and contacts between different varieties of Spanish), Language and Migration, Morphosyntax and History of Spanish. My team is further working on the contact between Spanish and English in Gibraltar (M.A. Marta Rodríguez García), (im)politeness in Spanish (varieties of Madrid, Buenos Aires and Mexiko D.F.) from a sociopragmatic perspective (Dr. Alba Nalleli García Agüero-Patanè) and on teaching Spanish as a foreign language (Dr. Ángel Berenguer Amador).
Here you can find my institutional webpage of the University of Basel.
