Browsing by Author "Jinadasa, M.P."

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Communicative Perspective of New Words in Modern Urban Sinhala Language.
(Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya,Sri Lanka., 2017) Prabha, K.; Jesudasan, A.M.; Jinadasa, M.P.
Language is the fundamental aspect of human communication. Despite Sinhala language has been originally rooted by the Sanskrit language as many other languages as German, Catholic, Benito, Slavic, modern Sinhala language has been recently cultivated by the multiplying of new words and expressions that can be widely utilized by the urban societies in Sri Lanka. However, this present study surveys the newly utilized urban slangs and colloquial expressions in the Sinhala vernacular. This study conducts using qualitative research methodology, including focused groups, participatory observations and textual analyses. Data were judgmentally selected by the sample of two field surveys of GramaNiladhari Divisions (GNDs), East uppiyawaththa, No.52, Ketawalamulla place, Dematagoda (01) and Dematagoda, No.36, Sri Wijayaramaya, Seelarathna lane, aramaya road, Dematagoda (02), from august 2015 uptojuly 2016. Assuming that Sinhala language is substantially nurtured by the urban use of words and slangs, based on this research survey, this study concludes, that, both two GNDs use significantly similar words in their colloquial verbal communication. These use of words represent the diversity of their identities, who live in the same places of urban. Their use of language is also differentiated by their respective social events. Further, there are number of English words, in addition to their traditional words of folk-lore. Interestingly lots of worlds are significantly shorten in comparison to their other words in use. Moreover, it is difficult to find a logical co-relation in the respective words and their meaning. Patta, Toiya, Kella, aaathal, Bassalayanawa, Halalayanawa, adala ne, Henagahapan are some of the urban slangs used to denote their social class, position of work, prestige and elite. Finally, this study made a new classification of word groups in to ten (10) divisions based on different purposes of their use of language. Pitch, velocity, tone and rhythm in pronunciation of their use of these new words and expressions are significantly differentiated by religious, cultural and social diversity.
Impact of Dependent Origination (Pratītyasamutpāda) towards Semiotics
(Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Jinadasa, M.P.
Dependent origination or dependent arising (Pratītyasamutpāda) is the central idea of Buddhist thought (6th BCE in India), which discloses the entire creation of human physics in terms of the mechanism of living matters in the body and mind, while semiotics is the modern science of linguistics for understanding the structure of signs and symbols in meaning making in the use of human language and communication, which is produced in the early 20th century in Europe and USA. This present study reveals the exposure of Buddhist thought of dependent origination on the modern theory of semiotics. While dependent origination is functioning for a definite answer for the composition of human being, problems associated with the human behavior which could be managed by the understanding of the practice of dependent arising. At the same time semiotics has been using not only for meaning making in the use of signs, but also it is highly significant in the use of descriptive analysis of social systems and human behavior in analytical philosophy. After diagnostically reading these two theories, this study assumes that the Buddhist thought of the creation of living objects has been fundamental in forming the semiotics, which is one of the modern western analytical philosophies. Despite of the fact that Buddhist thought centrally explores the existence of human being for its cessation from suffering (dhukka), same exposition can be utilized for identifying ones’ intra-personal communication using dependent origination. On the other, semiotics is a tool of modern analysis for human intra-personal communication. However, finally this study finds that the Buddhist thought of dependent origination could be immensely accommodating to understand semiotics as it is used for modern social analysis ranging from anthropological hermeneutics to cyber cognition.
Rhythm and Tonic Expression of the Language Pronunciation; Yapahuwa Regional Dialect
(University of Kelaniya, 2015) Jinadasa, M.P.
Objective of this study is to identify the tonic and rhythmic communications with special reference to Yapahuwa regional dialect. Communication and performance theory and phonology theory are instrumental in analyzing the musical and communicative formation of the language pronunciation. Despite of the widely popular style of pronunciation of the Sinhala language, Yapahuwa regional dialect remains an absolutely different and stylistic passion and color in the diction. Phones of this specific dialect constitutes a substantial mellifluous manifestation in its articulation of the pronunciation deviating from the main Sinhala pronunciation. Long stress and sound difference of the speech remains a musical recitation to language, from which results a highly emotional persuasion towards the counter speaker. As this tonic and musical pronunciation takes some similarity with one of the gypsy tribes, who live close to this area, this study assumes that melodious pronunciation is made by the close association of that of the gypsy tribes. Finally, in conclusion, this entire study revealed that this musical pronunciation of the Sinhala language is much expressive and communicative in the meaning making in the social and dialogic inter-relations in the social and personal communication systems.