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The issue of equality in Sri Lankan English

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dc.contributor.author Wijewardana, A.S. en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2014-12-22T05:16:07Z
dc.date.available 2014-12-22T05:16:07Z
dc.date.issued 2014
dc.identifier.citation Annual Research Symposium,Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka; 2014 : 21p en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://repository.kln.ac.lk/handle/123456789/4828
dc.description.abstract Sri Lankan English, the variety of English spoken by Sri Lankans including many bilinguals, deviates from Standard British English. ?Gatekeepers� of Sri Lankan English, a fraction of Sri Lankan academic populace recognize a variety of Sri Lankan English as the ?standard dialect� and disdain other variations as inferior ?non-standard dialects�. Absurdly, they argue about the number of dialects in Sri Lankan English regardless of the fact that SLE as it is a non-native variety of English language could not possess dialects. The criteria they follow in setting the ?standards� are vague and unjust. In fact, they tend to overlook the most common practices as deviations, label them as ?not-pot English� and ironically ignore the deviations in SSLE from SBE so that their social prestige may prolong and make a dramatic plea for international recognition for the variety of English they promote. en_US
dc.publisher Book of Abstracts, Annual Research Symposium 2014 en_US
dc.title The issue of equality in Sri Lankan English
dc.type Article en_US
dc.identifier.department Linguistics en_US


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