Browsing Undergraduate Research Conference on Linguistics (URCL) by Subject "dialects"

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A Comparative Study on the Lexicon of 'The Village in the Jungle' and its Sinhalese Translation 'Beddegama'

Waththegedaral, P.T.S.S.; Karunathilaka, T.S.; Muthumali, H.P. (Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)

Translation is not just a translation of words but it is a creative act of translating the whole idea of source language into target language. The aim of this research is to compare the lexical meanings of Leonard Woolt's ...
Effectiveness of the Use of Dialects in Literary Translation (With Special Reference to the Sinhalese Translation of Earnest Hemingway's "Old Man and the Sea")

Shavoni, D.P.N.; de Alwis, K.K.L. (Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)

Dialects play an indispensable role in an effective translation. A dialect is a form of a language unique to a particular region or a social group. These social dialects spawn according to the social boundaries like ...
A Linguistic Analysis on the Lexical and Language Change of the Two Films "Pravegaya" and "Kolamba Sanniya"

Karunathilake, P.M.A.U. (Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)

The main target of this research is exploring the evaluation of lexicon and language of two films respectively "Kolamba Sanniya" and "Pravegaya". The research question was finding out how the language has been changed ...

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