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Item A study of conditional structures "ba”, “tara” and “to” in Japanese language(Faculty of Humanities, University of Kelaniya, 2015) Sewwandi, R.A.D.N.There are various types of conditional structures in Japanese language. Such as "ba, tara, to and nara". The students who are learning Japanese language are facing some difficulties when they are using these conditional structures. Some languages have various types of conditional structures and some languages do not have these types of many conditionals. This paper is to analyze the main characteristics of "ba, tara and to", the commonly using conditional structures in Japanese. Relevant data for the research has been collected from the native speakers. The purpose of this paper is to find out difference between " ba, tara and to" The findings will be useful for the students who are learning Japanese as a foreign language.Item 'ගම්පෙරළිය' සහ 'කුමුදිනී' (Yogayog) යන නවකතා ද්වයයෙන් පිළිබිඹු වන සමාජ පරිස්ථිතිය පිළිබඳ සංසන්දනාත්මක අධ්යයනයක්(Faculty of Humanities, University of Kelaniya, 2015) Kaushalya, S.S.Item Language policy in Singapore(Faculty of Humanities, University of Kelaniya, 2015) Kamali, R.D.; Hettihewa, A.S.; Senarathna, I.R.Language is not merely a tool for human communication where it also plays an important role in the development of social identity. Therefore it is important to have a wellplanned language policy in a country and it is becoming more and more essential in an increasingly multilingual society. As a multinational country Singapore has a diverse population and it includes Chinese, Malays, Indians, Eurasians, Caucasians and Asians of different origins. As a result of that Singapore has become a multilingual nation. However, the Singapore government recognises four official langauges: English, Malay, Chinese, Tamil. Their decison to adopt English, Mandarian, Malay and Tamil as their official languages came early in their nationhood. And also Bilingualism is a fundamental aspect of their education system while English is the medium of instruction in schools, students are required to learn their mother tongues aswell. This has ensured that they are able to engage fellow singaporeans of different races, access the global economy and at the same time remain connected to their cultural roots. This study attempts to describe how the language is being planned by the Singapore government and the present condition of their language policy. Data for the research are collected by using official documents of Singapore Government, newspaper articles and from recordings of informal conversations with a group of native speakers. These informal conversations are used to identify the bilingual habits of Singapore citizens. What we learned from the study is that in Singapore all four official languages were accorded parity of recognition, a clear message that all Singaporeans are equal partners in a single nation, regardless of race or language.Item A study of Śūnyatā concept(Faculty of Humanities, University of Kelaniya, 2015) Dheeralankara Thero, MorawakaIn Mahayana Buddhism, there are books written about sunyata or emptiness. Mahayana Buddhism greatly elaborates sunyata, because their forefathers could not understand the concept of Nibbana. Unfortunately, many people who are introduced to Mahayana teachings believe that Nibbana is an abstract concept. It is a very simple concept if one understands the pure Buddha Dhamma Emptiness is relative. There is no absolute “emptiness”. It is meaningless to say “this is emptiness” because there may be something there that we are not aware of. Still, one could say that “deep space is empty of tangible matter” to a good approximation. The Buddha said when the mind becomes empty of greed, hate and ignorance it becomes empty of those defilements and that mind has attained Nibbana. That is emptiness, sunyata with respect to defilements. When one attains the Arahantphala, one’s mind becomes sunya of raga, dosa, moha. But one still has sanna (perception), vedana (feelings), etc. and lives like a normal human being until death. At the death of an Arahant, “this world of 31 realms” becomes devoid of any trace of that life stream, except for the Arahant ‘snamagoththa’ there is no rebirth. So that is another sunyata. There is a sutta in Tipitaka that is about sunnata, and was delivered by the Buddha, called the Cula-Sunnatasutta. When I got to know about the sutta, I was glad to see that the sutta described emptiness very similar to the way I described it. This shows that the Dhamma is internally self-consistent. In the Cula-SunnataSuttaBuddha has preached. There is no need to write books on emptiness that are full of meaningless words. In a recent online discussion forum, I saw a comment saying that emptiness describes paticcasamuppada. This is surprising because in Mahayana texts it is not explained what paticcasamuppada is. The Buddha said “One who understands paticcasamuppada, understands Dhamma” The Mahayana sects have moved so far away from Buddha Dhamma, I cannot fathom why they still call it Buddha’s Dhamma.Item ශ්රී හර්ෂදේවයන්ගේ නාට්ය ත්රිත්වය පිළිබඳ විමර්ශනාත්මක අධ්යයනයක්(Faculty of Humanities, University of Kelaniya, 2015) Harshani, W.A.R.M.Item ද්විතීය භාෂාවක් ලෙස හින්දි භාෂා අධ්යයනයේ දී සිංහල මාතෘ භාෂකයන් මුහුණ පන ධ්වනි ආශ්රිත ගැටලු(Faculty of Humanities, University of Kelaniya, 2015) Perera, W.U.P.Item Responsibility of media for the change of traditional food and eating habits(Department of English, University of Kelaniya, 2015) Dhammarathana Thero, B.; Mendis, N.; de Saram, H.The research focuses on Sri Lankan food and eating habits. Today the food have been changed due to various reasons and media is one effective factor for this change. Today television and magazines are filled with plenty of advertisements and most of them are concerned with food. They point out the positive side of that product and how that product is helpful to the consumer. They highlight the simple, quick and easiness of that product to use. Today media, that is mainly television and magazines or newspapers have given major place to advertisements and among them the advertisements on instant food compel the people to buy it. It is proposed to undertake the following approach as methodology in order to meet the research objectives. This research will consist of two primary stages. First stage consists of content analysis of primary and secondary sources and the second stage is a qualitative research by means of interviews. Information were gathered from the students, lecturers and few families in countryside and city. Through the information the conclusion was that media is highly effective for the change of traditional food and eating habits mainly in the cities than the villages.Item Consequences of adopting a multiple language policy in a multilingual and multiethnic country: the case of India.(Faculty of Humanities, University of Kelaniya, 2015) Perera, A.H.Language is one of the prominent resources that should be planned for the sociopolitical wellbeing of a multilingual and multiethnic country. This study intends to examine the consequences of adopting multiple language policy in such a country. India is a multilingual and multiethnic country where several hundreds of mutually unintelligible languages and dialects are spoken. Therefore India has been chosen as the sample of this study. Attempts have been made to examine the consequences of multiple official languages policy India, citing official records on the subject as the sources of data. Indian government has declared a number of regional official languages for each of the regional states while adopting Hindi and English as the official languages of the whole country. All judicial, administrative, and educational matters in regional states are carried out in the respective regional languages. Hindi and English function as the languages of the central government and facilitate communication between central government and regional states. This language policy has drawn success in maintaining the sociopolitical wellbeing of the country, but not in securing the future of regional languages. The long lasted predominance of Hindi and English has threatened the status and the future of the regional languages. Therefore one can hardly say that this multiple language policy has done justice to the conservation of those languages. Thus it is clear that multiple language policy cannot be regarded as the best solution to all the language related issues in a multilingual and multiethnic country.Item සමාජ උපභාෂා සහ ප්රස්තාවික භාෂා ස්වරූප අතර පවත්නා වෙනස(Faculty of Humanities, University of Kelaniya, 2015) Tharika, S.A.S.; Harshani, J.M.V.; Hansika, R.Item ඊජිප්තු ශිෂ්ටාචාරයේ ශීර්ෂ පලදනා(Faculty of Humanities, University of Kelaniya, 2015) Jayasena, B.H.L.D.; Subhashini, K.; Lakmali, N.Item බුදු දහම පිළිබඳ දෙවැනි ජුවාම් පාවුලු පාප්තුමන්ගේ ප්රකාශය සධාර්මිකද? අන්තරාගමික සංවාදයට එහි බලපෑම කුමක්ද?(Faculty of Humanities, University of Kelaniya, 2015) Wijesekara, Y.T.P.Item 'සියබස්ලකර' කතුවරයාගේ ස්වාධීනත්වය පිළිබඳ විමර්ශනයක්(Faculty of Humanities, University of Kelaniya, 2015) Ramani, W.Item Teaching English to Marketing Undergraduates - A Self Reflection(Department of English, University of Kelaniya, 2015) Hettiarachchi, A.This is a self- reflexive study of the researcher’s experience as an English Language teacher, which was carried out as an assignment for the course unit Literary Pedagogy.. A group of third year students of mixed ability, from the department of Marketing, varying from upper elementary level to lower intermediate level, was chosen to carry out a language lesson using a literary text, of which the focus was prepositions. Her presentation includes her personal viewpoints as well as the students’ view point on the effectiveness of the lesson and her own teaching methods. She will also address question of effectiveness in using literary texts in language teaching.Item මැටි කරත්තය නාට්යයෙන් සමාජ පුරුෂාර්ථයන්හි සර්වකාලින වටිනාකම පිළිබඳ අධ්යයනයක්(Faculty of Humanities, University of Kelaniya, 2015) Kumari, S.G.G.M.Item A comparative study of nonverbal communication strategies between Japan and Sri Lanka(Faculty of Humanities, University of Kelaniya, 2015) Edirimannage, I.Communication is a basic part of all human behaviors. Humans communicate using language. However, it is becoming far more evident now. Human communication is effected through Nonverbal means such as, eye contacts, gestures, postures, looks etc. Nonverbal communication has been defined as communication without words. Nonverbal communication is different from one language to another language, one culture to another culture, from one country to another and one society to another. Nonverbal communication plays a major role in human communication. When considering Nonverbal communication styles of Japan and Sri Lanka, it is also different. Japanese language learners of Sri Lanka encounter the problem of understanding nonverbal communication of Japanese people. Therefore, misunderstandings quotes in both Sri Lankans and Japanese and it leads to make the communication unsuccessful even though the used language (grammar and words) is perfect. For example, eye contact where Japanese people lower their eyes when speaking to a superior as a gesture of respect. But in Sri Lanka if someone lower their eyes when speaking to a superior it means he or she is dishonest or feeling guilty. Also, crossing legs when sitting in Japan means he or she is the superior. But in Sri Lanka it is only a sitting position. Considering such instances, the purpose of this research is to show the effect and differences of the nonverbal communication between Japanese and Sri Lankan. This research will describe the way of touching and spacing affect Japanese and Sri Lankans when using nonverbal communication. Finally, it was expected that the findings of this research will support the development of Japanese language education in Sri Lanka.Item කාම උන්මාදය සමනය කරගැනීම සඳහා ජාතක කතාවන්හි උපයෝගීතාව(Faculty of Humanities, University of Kelaniya, 2015) Susima Thero, OpanayakeItem The use of “ni” and “de” particles in Japanese language(Faculty of Humanities, University of Kelaniya, 2015) Nuwansiri, I.P.Item සිංහල පද්ය සාහිත්යයෙහි ආරම්භක යුගයන්හි පැවති ස්වාධීන විචාර චින්තනය පිළිබඳ විමර්ශනයක්(Faculty of Humanities, University of Kelaniya, 2015) Saputhanthri, I.M.Item Anxiety of authorship in “Johnny panic and the bible of dreams” by Sylvia Plath(Faculty of Humanities, University of Kelaniya, 2015) Hettiarachchi, H.A.This paper analyzes the short story “Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams” written by Sylvia Plath using a Feminist approach. The short story is based on a strong element of fantasy, and is also noted for its graphic portrayal of fear and madness. Critics agree on the reading of the text as a semi-autobiographic short story that served a therapeutic purpose for Plath, through which she gave vent to the pent up frustration stemming from the social and domestic pressure that pushed her towards her numerous suicidal attempts. However, this paper intends to extend this reading beyond the element of personal in order to discover the mechanisms of the patriarchal social order and the resultant anxiety of authorship in woman that are reflected upon the “Lake Nightmare”-as Plath calls it. I have adopted the method of feminist literary analysis of the short story, supported by comparisons with the other selected texts by the writer. I opted for this methodology as it allows more space for the observation and the identification of motifs in Plath’s writing and also their relation to the elements of feminist theory. For instance “Johnny Panic” in this short story can be identified as an embodiment of all the tyrannical male figures scattered across her writing – God, Devil, father, husband and many more, all recreating the systemic oppression of woman within the patriarchal social order. The analysis is primarily based on the concept of “Anxiety of authorship” forwarded by Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar, and also the concept of patriarchal ideology. The paper also explores the related concept of the “Mad Woman” as presented within this fiction. Based on this analysis, I argue that “Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams” is a haunting portrayal of the patriarchal social structure and its devastating impact on the less privileged “Other” – understood in this context as the woman.Item Manipulating TV news(Department of English, University of Kelaniya, 2015) Rathnayake, H.; Marasinghe, S.; Mahathmaarachchi, H.; Mahathmaarachchi, T.; Herath, I.Media is the means of communication that teaches or influence people widely. Media does not only create news but they create news with a message. However currently it is impossible to find any news without biasness. This puts a heavy responsibility on TV news to adhere to the laws enacted upon the media. The fact that media tends to telecast news as exciting stories through political biasness, exaggerating the violent activities of the country, the omission of information and racism are often criticized. Research have been conducted on the responsibility of the media in presenting news to the general public. According to these research generally media should attempt to weigh ethical obligations of accuracy in order to fulfill the necessity of competitive reporting. Therefore this research intends to analyze popularity as a main reason for the above discussed matter and present it as the research gap of the study. Accordingly the research will use the viewpoint that “popularity” is the main objective of news media in broadcasting their news. In this study, we focus on analyzing the Sri Lankan television channels’ quest for popularity results the lack of reliability of news broadcasting. Content analysis and video based questionnaire are identified as more appropriate methods. We intend at capturing three important aspects, politics, excess depiction of violence and racism as tools to gain popularity. This research proves that TV news must be honest towards their efforts and should not have any concealed purpose in presenting news.