This paper investigates attitudes and perceptions of Barbadians toward British and American English on the one hand, and the degree of structural Americanization of contemporary Barbadian English as documented in a corpus of Facebook comments on the other hand. The results indicate a discrepancy between explicitly formulated preferences and actual production patterns; while American English is devalued by most respondents, the advancement of cross-linguistic influence of American English on the levels of orthography and lexicon of Barbadian English is undeniable. The findings further suggest a continued linguistic identification with British norms in the perception of many Barbadians, while the awareness of an emerging local standard variety is only slowly gaining ground.

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巴巴多斯英语的美国化

本文一方面调查了巴巴多斯人对英式和美式英语的态度和看法，另一方面调查了 Facebook 评论语料库中记录的当代巴巴多斯英语的结构美国化程度。结果表明明确制定的偏好与实际生产模式之间存在差异；虽然美式英语被大多数受访者贬值，但美式英语的跨语言影响对巴巴多斯英语的正字法和词汇水平的提升是不可否认的。调查结果进一步表明，在许多巴巴多斯人的认知中，他们对英国规范的语言认同持续存在，而对新兴当地标准变体的认识只是在缓慢地取得进展。