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  • The Impact of Sinhalese on Muslim Tamil: A Study Based on the Muslims of Atulugama Area 
    Hettihewa, A.S. (Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    Language mixing is a common linguistic phenomenon practiced in bilingual or multilingual contexts. People who live in a bilingual or multilingual communication environment usually have a tendency to use two or more ...
  • The Impact of Tamil Lexicon on the Sinhalese Language 
    Bandara, H.M.S.M.; Pathmasiri, P.S.S.; de Silva, Y.G.H.S. (Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    Sinhalese and Tamillanguages are used as official languages in Sri Lanka. It is apparent that both these languages have had a great amount of influence on each other. Linguistics borrowing into both languages can be ...
  • The Importance of Television in Order to Improve English as a Second Language among Children 
    Peiris, T.G. (Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    The purpose of this study is to determine whether the television channels can make sensible influence in improving the English knowledge among the children in the country. Fluency in a second language is of course not ...
  • Institutional Language Planning Situation of the Faculty of Humanities, University of Kelaniya: A Case Study 
    Samaraweera, O.G.E.N.T. (Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    Language planning is the deliberate, systematic and theory-based attempt to solve the communication problems of a community by selecting an official language and standardising its structure. Even though language planning ...
  • Issues Faced by the Third Year Undergraduate Students in Practicing Interpretation for Translation Methods 
    Keerthiwansha, N.W.B.S. (Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    Interpretation is the process of converting an expression delivered in source language into a comparable meaning in a target language either simultaneously in real time or consecutively when the speaker pauses after ...
  • Issues of Subtitling Faced by the Translator and the Audience 
    Jayasinghe, S.; Egodage, W. (Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    Subtitling is a prevalent method used to translate foreign dialogues of a movie or television program to be usually displayed at the bottom of the screen. Viewers are generally well motivated to understand what is shown ...
  • The Lack of Corpus Planning in the Language Policy of Multilingual South Africa 
    Jayawardhana, J.M.W.H.; Dhaneshika, K.M. (Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    Language planning is deliberate effort to influence the function, structure, or acquisition of languages or language variety within a speech community. The purpose of the paper to examine the language planning situation ...
  • Language Planning in Senegal: A Study Based on the Position of 'Wolof' as a National Language 
    Kekulawalal, S.; Samankumari, P.G. (Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    Language planning refers to deliberate and systematic attempts taken to solve the language problems of the speech community. Government authority gives a prior contribution when planning a language through legislation, ...
  • Language Planning Situations in Sri Lanka and Singapore: A Comparative Study 
    Kamali, R.D. (Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    Language planning can be defined as a deliberate attempt to change the linguistics behaviour of a speech community for a particular reason. It is often associated with the government planning. It can be initiated to push ...
  • A Linguistic Analysis on Deixis of Catholic Religious Functions in Sri Lanka 
    Samaraweeral, M. (Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    "Deixis" are the words or phrases such as this, that, these, those, now, and then that point to time, place or situations in which a speaker is speaking. There are many deixis used in Sinhalese speaking society in Sri ...
  • A Linguistic Analysis on the Language Used in Short Message Services 
    Sewwandi, K.A.S. (Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    The necessity for an efficient concise language in communication has been the reason behind evolution of Short Message Language. They are used for different communicative purposes. Development in Communication and ...
  • 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 ...
  • A Linguistic Study on the Impact of Facebook on the Sinhalese Language 
    Samudra, D.W.B. (Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    One of the current trends in the modem society is the frequent use of Facebook and it is being used almost everywhere in the world. Using Facebook is very much popular among Sinhalese speakers as well. Being a popular ...
  • Opposing Views on the Origin of Nasalised Plosive Sounds in the Sinhalese Language 
    Weerasingha, W.C.S.; Shashiprabha, K.G.T.; Ganepola, G.A.C.S. (Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    The contemporary Sinhalese language possesses five unique consonant sounds known as Nasalised Plosives alias Pre-nasal Stops. They are [g], 0]. [Q.]. [a]. [6] represented respectively by the graphemes <w. 0, f:!, <:;. ...
  • Phono-semantic Matching in the Sinhalese Language: A Neologisation Process Innovated by Cumaratnnga Mnnidasa 
    Randula, K.K.G. (Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
  • Presenting Sinhalese Cultural Words in English: A Study Based on Leonard Woolfs "The Village in the Jungle" 
    Darshika, K.M.H.; Uthurawala, D.W. (Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    The students of literary translation as well as the writers who are interested in writing about alien cultures in their native language, encounter problems in presenting cultural words of that particular community. As ...
  • The Relevance of the Word - for - Word Translation Method 
    Wijesinghe, W.R.A.I.D.; Jayasinghe, D.S.H.; Fernando, I.S.D. (Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    Peter Newmark had given an in depth analysis on the subject area of translation. In 1998 in the book of "A text book of translation" he had given an acceptable definition on language translation and 8 methods of translating ...
  • A Study on the Problems Occurred in Novel Translation 
    Sanjaya, G.; Senaratne, T.; Thathsarani, U. (Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    Translation is the comprehension of the meaning of the text and the subsequent production on an equivalent text that communicates the same message in another language. In this translation process translators definitely ...
  • A Study on Translating Idioms from English to Sinhalese 
    Nanayakkara, A.; Nagodawithana, A.; Madhusanka, C. (Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    Every language has its peculiar turns of expression. The peculiar uses of particular words and phrases which have become stereotyped by usage are known as the idioms of a language. It is generally agreed that idiomatic ...
  • Tenses in Tamil and Sinhalese in Written Language 
    Maithripalal, H.K.D.P.B.; Mallawaarachchi, M.A.S.P.K.; Kaushalya, A.S.R. (Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    Tarnil and Sinhalese are the major languages in Sri Lanka. Sinhalese belongs to the Indo-Aryan language family and Tamil belongs to the Dravidian language family. Tenses play a main role in a language. Tenses express the ...

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