What is ‘Linguistic interference’? A linguistic study with special reference to the Sinhala and English languages

dc.contributor.authorAssajithissa Thero, Kurupita
dc.date.accessioned2016-10-18T09:14:28Z
dc.date.available2016-10-18T09:14:28Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.description.abstractWhen a speaker knows more than one language, because of their disparity, one language can be influenced by the other language. This is more familiar in the bilingual context. Contemporary, Sri Lanka is a bilingual country. In Sri Lanka, Sinhala, Tamil and English are used. In this research, our attention is specially only paid to Sinhala and English languages. Especially, the problem or this research is to examine how linguistic interference functions on Sinhala and English languages in Sri Lankan context. When one uses two languages together those two languages could be influenced by each other. This process is termed in Bilingualism as interference which means the influence for each other. This belongs to the use of the language. While using two languages, not only phonological but also semantic, grammatical, lexicon and cultural changes are usually made. Here, the word ‘change’ stands for interference. In this topic, what is interference, what are the types of interference are discussed with examples with special reference to Sinhala and English languages. To study the nature of the interference of above mentioned languages data have been collected by closely referencing the colloquial use of Sinhala and English languages. Sri Lanka as a bilingual society, interference can be seen in the day to day conversation. Further, it can be divided into five categories such as phonological, semantic, grammatical, lexicon and cultural interference. In conclusion, interference is not an uncommon process of the languages used in the world. So, there is no exception to Sinhala and English.en_US
dc.identifier.citationAssajithissa Thero, Kurupita 2016. What is ‘Linguistic interference’? A linguistic study with special reference to the Sinhala and English languages. 2nd International Conference on the Humanities (ICH 2016), 06th - 07th October, Faculty of Humanities, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://repository.kln.ac.lk/handle/123456789/14564
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherFaculty of Humanities, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lankaen_US
dc.subjectInterferenceen_US
dc.subjectSinhala languageen_US
dc.subjectEnglish languageen_US
dc.subjectBilingualismen_US
dc.subjectParoleen_US
dc.titleWhat is ‘Linguistic interference’? A linguistic study with special reference to the Sinhala and English languagesen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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