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  • The Lack of the Sinhalese Language Literacy among the Students: A Case Study of a School in Kolonnawa Educational Division 
    Wickramasinghe, P.D.D.D. (Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    Sri Lanka has a commendable record for one of the highest literacy rates in the South East Asia. This achievement can be largely attributed to the free education system of the country which came into operation since 1945. ...
  • Language Acquisition Patterns: A Case Study of a Child Acquiring Sinhalese as the First Language 
    Weerawardhana, V. (Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    Child language acquisition is an innate strategy which reveals the psychological base of human language. Innate hypothesis is the pre-knowledge of the language. Human beings are born with this ability of internalising the ...
  • Language as a one of Vital Root Causes of the Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka 
    Subasinghe, Wasantha (University of Kelaniya, 2015)
    The ethnic conflict within last three decades can be considered as a conflict between the Sri Lankan government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). It is a conflict between majority; Sinhalese and minority; ...
  • Language Planning and Future of the National Languages of Sri Lanka 
    Premaratna, C.D.H.M. (University of Kelaniya, 2015)
    Language planning is a deliberate effort to influence the function, structure, or acquisition of languages or language variety within a speech community. It is often associated with government planning. The goals of ...
  • Language Policies and Social Cohesion in Multilingual States: Some Personal Observations 
    Lewis, R.L. (Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    This paper is meant simply to be an opening point for a continuation of an ongoing discussion of multilingualism within states and regions vis-à-vis: Civil and criminal law, law enforcement, domestic educational policy, ...
  • Language Policy and Politics 
    Rajapakshe, R.M.W. (University of Kelaniya, 2015)
    Language the most sophisticated invention of man, is a tool used to fulfill main requirements of the people inclusive of communication. Thus language is not a problem. However, when it is used as a medium of instruction ...
  • Language Policy Implementation: A Comparative Study between Sri Lanka and Canada 
    Wickramasinghe, P.D.D.D. (Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    Accommodation of a multi-ethnic population within a territory of a single state has been largely acknowledged as a worldwide issue due to the problems stemming out from the linguistic disparities. In the most of the countries ...
  • The Language Used by Mahouts to Communicate with Captive Elephants in Mid Country of Sri Lanka 
    Subasinghe, S.A.M.T. (Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    Elephants have served man all the way through ages in numerous ways, for man has captured and tamed them from wilds for his purposes. This report presents an analysis of the language used by mahouts to communicate with the ...
  • Learning out of the Classroom: An Effective Way to Achieve the Communicative Goals of Teaching German as a Foreign Language. 
    Nanayakkara, K. A. D. N. S. A. (The Third International Conference on Linguistics in Sri Lanka, ICLSL 2017. Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2017)
    This paper focuses on „learning outside the classroom‟ as an effective method to achieve the communication goals in foreign language learning. Conducting learning activities in appropriate conditions beyond the walls of ...
  • Lexical Differences between Tamil and Sri Lankan Tamil 
    Palanirajan, G. (Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    The aim of the study is to analyse reciprocal comprehension between Tamil and Sri Lankan Tamil native speakers. The languages Tamil and Sri Lankan Tamil are commonly regarded as two particularly closely related members of ...
  • Lexical Features and Variations of Sri Lankan English in Sri Lankan Internet Memes 
    Nilesm, J.S. (Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    The emergence and validation of New Englishes is often assessed within the framework of the „Dynamic Model of the Evolution of New Englishes‟ developed by Edgar Schneider (2003; 2007) in which New Englishes are formed by ...
  • Linguistic Analysis of “Viridu”. 
    De Zoysa, A. (The Third International Conference on Linguistics in Sri Lanka, ICLSL 2017. Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2017)
    The genre of Sinhala Narrative Poetry called “Viridu” has been a source of entrainment that can be traced right back to the courts of the Kings of Kotte and Kandy of the 17th and 18th century. The strong narrative element ...
  • A Linguistic Study on Abbreviations in the Japanese Language 
    Jayathilake, H.M.D.T.K. (Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    This paper is a linguistic analysis and a study of abbreviations in the Japanese language and the manner in which such abbreviations are effected. Abbreviations of Japanese terms that are used frequently, are a recent ...
  • A Linguistic Study on the Japanese Translation of “Viragaya” 
    Dayarathne, P.N.N.D. (Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    This research discusses the possible cultural influences on translation with special reference to the cultural words found in Professor Tadash Noguchi‟s Japanese translation of the Sinhalese novel “Viragaya” by Martin ...
  • A Linguistic Study on the Pattern of Negation in Bodo Language. 
    Basumatary, A. (The Third International Conference on Linguistics in Sri Lanka, ICLSL 2017. Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2017)
    Negation is a process or construction in grammatical and semantic analysis in all languages which typically expresses the contradiction of some or all of a sentence meaning. Many linguists have worked on various aspects ...
  • The Logical Relationship between the Writing Errors and the Acquisition Order of the English Grammatical Morphemes 
    Jeyaseelan, S.; Wijeratne, W.M. (Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    The study of the acquisition of the grammatical morphemes seems to be a key concern of this study in terms of the order of acquisition. Acquisition order is very much inter-related with the process of second language ...
  • Lullabies Enrich Child Linguistic Development 
    Nandakumara, U.A. (Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    This research paper confers the importance of lullabies being sung to children, commencing from the pre-linguistic stage of language acquisition until the end of the first few years of the infancy. Thus, this report deals ...
  • Merit and Demerit of the Grammatical Method of Vīracōliyam 
    Rajaratnam, K. (University of Kelaniya, 2015)
    Vīracōliyam is one of the major treatises on Tamil grammar,prosody and poetics. It has been widely accepted that this treatise is assignable to the 11th century A.D. Chronologically Vīracōliyam is the second grammar ...
  • A Method to Sort Official Correspondence through Natural Language Processing 
    Weerasooriya, T.; Perera, N. (Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    Natural language Processing (NLP) is a new branch of study in Computational Linguistics and the field has undergone rapid development over the past few decades. Keyword extraction is a popular application of NLP. The present ...
  • Morphological Characteristics of Sri Lankan English: Some New Observations 
    Thumbowila, T.M.; Ghosh, R. (Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    This paper demonstrates how Sri Lankan English (SLE) has a unique lexical repertoire from distinct from other varieties of English used in the Asian subcontinent. It examines the contribution of morphology in developing a ...

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