Stuka, ChristineChristineStuka2023-12-072023-12-072023https://jlupub.ub.uni-giessen.de/handle/jlupub/18788http://dx.doi.org/10.22029/jlupub-18152This 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.enNamensnennung 4.0 Internationalddc:820