The Americanization of Barbadian English
dc.contributor.author | Stuka, Christine | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-12-07T14:39:55Z | |
dc.date.available | 2023-12-07T14:39:55Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2023 | |
dc.description.abstract | 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. | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://jlupub.ub.uni-giessen.de//handle/jlupub/18788 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://dx.doi.org/10.22029/jlupub-18152 | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.rights | Namensnennung 4.0 International | |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | |
dc.subject.ddc | ddc:820 | |
dc.title | The Americanization of Barbadian English | |
dc.type | article | |
local.affiliation | FB 05 - Sprache, Literatur, Kultur | |
local.source.epage | 114 | |
local.source.journaltitle | World Englishes | |
local.source.spage | 91 | |
local.source.uri | https://doi.org/10.1111/weng.12611 | |
local.source.volume | 42 |
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