Spanisch in Afrika/Afrika in Spanien. Sprachliche Charakteristika von Spanischsprecherinnen und Spanischsprechern aus Äquatorialguinea in Madrid

Abstract In this paper, from the perspective of migration context in Madrid, we look at only officially Hispanophone country Africa: Equatorial Guinea. After a detailed introduction to Guinea’s history and languages, offer an overview Equatoguinean Spain its current situation. main part article, discuss three linguistic characteristics Spanish spoken by people origin. order do so, use corpus 24 sociolinguistic life-story interviews, conducted Madrid 2017 2018. The selected features represent different levels: syntax (variable prepositions construction ir ‘to go’ + preposition or en destination), semantics (use verbs oír hear’ escuchar listen’), pragmatics (discursive tío / tía ‘[literally:] uncle/aunt’). To gain better understanding, consider Guinea compare our results with other contact varieties Spanish. Altogether, study offers insight into diaspora same time makes contribution modern description