Abstract In the anglophone Caribbean, tendencies of endonormative reorientation have been observed in the development of local standards of English. Situated in the school context, this study adds a language attitude perspective on the question of whether and to what extent an endonormative standard of English is emerging in the island of Trinidad. In an accent rating study, 803 secondary students were asked to evaluate the accents of Trinidadian, other anglophone Caribbean, American, and British teachers and to identify their countries of origin. The results indicate that the respondents’ norm orientation is multidimensional and includes exo- and endonormative influences: first, there is a general coexistence of different standards since no standard serves as a superordinate norm. Second, there is no clear-cut distinction between exo- and endonormative accents, but fine-grained differences in the ratings: British and American voices received slightly higher ratings than local ones, but an American-influenced Trinidadian voice was also highly appreciated. These findings provide some new perspectives for evolutionary models of World Englishes and new insights for the discussion of standards in Trinidad, the wider anglophone Caribbean, and other small postcolonial speech communities where different local and global norms interact.

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特立尼达中学生对标准英语口音的态度

摘要在加勒比海英语地区，当地标准英语的发展已观察到内规范性重新定向的趋势。在学校环境中，这项研究针对特立尼达岛是否正在以及在多大程度上出现了英语规范化标准的问题增加了一种语言态度观点。在一项口音等级研究中，要求803名中学生评估特立尼达语，其他英语加勒比，美国和英国教师的口音，并确定他们的原籍国。结果表明，受访者的规范取向是多维的，包括外部规范和内部规范的影响：首先，由于没有任何标准可以作为上级规范，因此存在不同标准的普遍共存。第二，外部和内部规范口音之间没有明确的区别，但是评级上的细微差别：英国和美国的声音获得的评级略高于本地，但受到美国影响的特立尼达语的声音也受到高度赞赏。这些发现为世界英语的进化模型提供了一些新的见解，并为特立尼达，更广泛的英语盎格鲁语的加勒比海以及其他地方和全球规范相互影响的其他小型后殖民言论社区的标准讨论提供了新见解。