Abstract:
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 within
generations. Other than watching the two films, in order to get more information,
talked with the particular societies. The film "Pravegaya" depicts the colloquial
Sinhalese language. On behalf of getting more information, studies on colloquial
lexicon, helped very much. Furthermore, data were collected by referring
relevant books. The main reason is both films were based on Colombo city for
the selection of these two particular films. "Kolamba Sanniya" was released in
1976 and "Pravegaya" was released in 2015. The main aim is showing, how the
Colombo city and its language have changed within a period of 39 years. When
examine these two films, many words in the film "Kolamba Sanniya" replaced
in the film "Pravegaya". For example, words like "Dumbarabage","Kakul
Kadittuwa","Elibahinawa","Badawatiya" have replaced in the film "Pravegaya"
as "Patta","Padiri","Jathi","Sira","Athal" ... etc. These can be introduced as
regional dialects. Linguistically affected fields such as translation method,
dialectology variations, linguistically applied to the methodology. Thus the
movie "Pravegaya" shows, how open economy affected Colombo city. Some
subcultures occurred, such as drug dealing and heroine. Coined words emerged
gradually in the city of Colombo. Thus, by studying these two films, it can be
evaluate that from generations to generations it is important to be aware of these
coined words. It will be useful for first language, second language and foreign
language learners. It is a normal process of adding new words to the language.
By examining old films and new films, it is clear that how vocabulary changes
in particular societies and addition of new dialects occur during a particular
period of time.
