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Item Children and cinema: The Prominence and Effectiveness of Cultural Values in Child Cinema(4th International Conference on Social Sciences 2018, Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2018) Hettiarachchi, K.S.T.; Gunasekara, H.N.W .Commonly held standards on which a complete community depends are named as cultural values. If further elaborated, cultural values are categorized into three main segments such as, customs (traditions and rituals), values (beliefs), culture (clothing, food, language etc.). It can be clearly seen that cultural values and the society are strongly connected with each other, as pre-mentioned, the community depends on cultural values. When discussing about the society, children are considered as the future generation of the community. Generally, a young human being below the age of puberty or below the age of majority of the community is considered as a child. However, as children are considered as the future generation of the society, it can be seen that, cultural values play an important role in their lives. This research paper examines the portrayal of the cultural values in children’s movies and its effect on lives of children. Children’s cinema is a medium of communication among adults and children. In addition, it is a sub-form of children’s literature and entertainment. However, these children’s movies are used as a subtle source of transmitting messages from adults to children. Cultural values play a major role in this medium as the future generation should have knowledge on their identical cultural values. This comparative study mainly focuses on how cultural values are portrayed in child cinema. Two culturally different children’s movies are selected to investigate the research problem; “How effectively cultural values are portrayed in the children’s movies and how portrayed cultural values in child cinema affect lives of children?” “Ho Ghana Pokuna” and “Les Vacances du petit Nicholas” are the movies selected as the research resources. These two movies represent Sri Lankan and French cultural values respectively. Moreover, as the chosen subject area is wide, few themes are selected to represent cultural values, namely; language, attire, beliefs and human bonds (family, friends etc.).The data analysis of the research study affirms that cultural values are important in building up society and humanity. Further it elaborates how effectively cultural values are portrayed in these two movies and the impact it causes in children’s lives. Moreover, this research study manages to evoke how the language, behaviour and believes of the focused audience; who are children, change after watching children’s movies for a period of time. Thus, it can be concluded that, the best children’s movies have attempted to introduce children to the real world of profound humanity and in this comparative research study it is proven that the importance and the effectiveness of cultural values in building up a better societyItem 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.Item A Study on Impacts of Unplanned Tourism Development – with reference to Negombo Tourism Hub, Sri Lanka(Department of Economics, University of Kelaniya, 2016) Gunasekara, I.The specific aim of the research was to find out socio-cultural effects of unplanned tourism development to destinations. The study carried out at Negombo tourism hub. Negombo is one of the famous tourist destinations located in the Greater Colombo area, close proximity to Sri Lanka’s first international airport and has been a significant tourist attraction since the 1960s. Currently, Negombo is one of the best places for Beach tourism (Sun, Sea, and Sand), Night life, Water sports, Seafood and traditional fishing. Nonetheless, the government involvement was not sufficient in the early days of tourism development hence much of the development activities surrounding Negombo has been unplanned. This has been caused for many negative impacts as well. Much of these adverse impacts have affected the host community. This study was able to identify these adverse effects through primary and secondary data collecting methods.