The Postcolonial Identity of Sri Lankan English
Author: Manique Gunasekera
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Published: 2005
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13:
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Sri Lankans' Views on English in the Colonial and Post-Colonial Eras
Author: Dr. Subathini Ramesh
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2020-02-18
Total Pages: 170
ISBN-13: 1527547205
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book evaluates the views of different ethnic groups towards the English language in Sri Lanka for a period of almost two centuries. While a few studies have addressed the subject of English in Sri Lanka in a general way, there has been no research showing the specifics of English usage in the major ethnic communities of the country. This text considers notions and attitudes towards English that prevail in Sri Lanka today among writers, language planners, teachers and students, habitual speakers, and infrequent users, as well as elite and non-elite groups in the country. The book also examines colonial and postcolonial writings in three communities, namely the Sri Lankan diaspora and the Tamil and Sinhala communities.
The Handbook of Asian Englishes
Author: Kingsley Bolton
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2020-09-14
Total Pages: 928
ISBN-13: 1118791657
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first volume of its kind, focusing on the sociolinguistic and socio-political issues surrounding Asian Englishes The Handbook of Asian Englishes provides wide-ranging coverage of the historical and cultural context, contemporary dynamics, and linguistic features of English in use throughout the Asian region. This first-of-its-kind volume offers a wide-ranging exploration of the English language throughout nations in South Asia, Southeast Asia, and East Asia. Contributions by a team of internationally-recognized linguists and scholars of Asian Englishes and Asian languages survey existing works and review new and emerging areas of research in the field. Edited by internationally renowned scholars in the field and structured in four parts, this Handbook explores the status and functions of English in the educational institutions, legal systems, media, popular cultures, and religions of diverse Asian societies. In addition to examining nation-specific topics, this comprehensive volume presents articles exploring pan-Asian issues such as English in Asian schools and universities, English and language policies in the Asian region, and the statistics of English across Asia. Up-to-date research addresses the impact of English as an Asian lingua franca, globalization and Asian Englishes, the dynamics of multilingualism, and more. Examines linguistic history, contemporary linguistic issues, and English in the Outer and Expanding Circles of Asia Focuses on the rapidly-growing complexities of English throughout Asia Includes reviews of the new frontiers of research in Asian Englishes, including the impact of globalization and popular culture Presents an innovative survey of Asian Englishes in one comprehensive volume Serving as an important contribution to fields such as contact linguistics, World Englishes, sociolinguistics, and Asian language studies, The Handbook of Asian Englishes is an invaluable reference resource for undergraduate and graduate students, researchers, and instructors across these areas. Winner of the 2021 PROSE Humanities Category for Language & Linguistics
The Politics and Poetics of Authenticity
Author: Harshana Rambukwella
Publisher: UCL Press
Published: 2018-07-02
Total Pages: 178
ISBN-13: 1787351297
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat is the role of cultural authenticity in the making of nations? Much scholarly and popular commentary on nationalism dismisses authenticity as a romantic fantasy or, worse, a deliberately constructed mythology used for political manipulation. The Politics and Poetics of Authenticity places authenticity at the heart of Sinhala nationalism in late nineteenth and twentieth-century Sri Lanka. It argues that the passion for the ‘real’ or the ‘authentic’ has played a significant role in shaping nationalist thinking and argues for an empathetic yet critical engagement with the idea of authenticity. Through a series of fine-grained and historically grounded analyses of the writings of individual figures central to the making of Sinhala nationalist ideology the book demonstrates authenticity’s rich and varied presence in Sri Lankan public life and its key role in understanding postcolonial nationalism in Sri Lanka and elsewhere in South Asia and the world. It also explores how notions of authenticity shape certain strands of postcolonial criticism and offers a way of questioning the taken-for-granted nature of the nation as a unit of analysis but at the same time critically explore the deep imprint of nations and nationalisms on people's lives.
Teaching of English
Author: Iresha Madhavi Karunaratne
Publisher: APH Publishing
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9788131304600
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStudy conducted in government schools of Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Terror and Reconciliation
Author: Maryse Jayasuriya
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2012-03-29
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 0739165798
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTerror and Reconciliation explores the English language literature that has emerged from Sri Lanka’s quarter-century long ethnic conflict. It examines poetry, short fiction and novels by both diasporic writers and writers resident in Sri Lanka. Its discussion of resident Sri Lankan writers is particularly important because it calls attention to a rich and ambitious body of work that has largely been ignored in the Western academy and media until now. The book outlines the ways in which a wide range of resident and diasporic writers have sought to represent the conflict, mourn the violence and terror associated with the conflict, and present options for reconciliation in the conflict’s aftermath. The writers discussed grapple with issues of terrorism, human rights, nationalism, war, democracy, gender, ethnicity, and reconciliation, making this a study of profound interest for students and scholars of South Asian literature and culture, postcolonial studies, race and ethnic studies, women’s studies, and peace studies.
Sacred Modernity
Author: Tariq Jazeel
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 2013-07-18
Total Pages: 205
ISBN-13: 178138830X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the relationships between nature and environment and the contested politics of nationhood in contemporary Sri Lanka.
Postcolonial Insecurities
Author: Sankaran Krishna
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9781452903873
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Lexis and Lexicogrammar of Sri Lankan English
Author: Tobias Bernaisch
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Published: 2015-09-15
Total Pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9027268223
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book offers the first in-depth corpus-based description of written Sri Lankan English. In comparison to British and Indian English, lexical and lexicogrammatical features of Sri Lankan English are analysed in a complex corpus environment comprising data from the respective components of the International Corpus of English, newspapers and online sources to explore the status of Sri Lankan English as a variety in its own right. The evolution of Sri Lankan English is depicted against the background of historical as well as sociolinguistic considerations and allows deriving a fine-grained model of the emergence of distinctive structural profiles of postcolonial Englishes developing in a multitude of norm orientations. This book is highly relevant to readers interested in Sri Lankan English and South Asian Englishes. It also offers more general sociolinguistic perspectives on the dynamics of postcolonial Englishes world-wide and on the inextricable link between language and identity.
Society And Space
Author: Nihal Perera
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: 1998-04-02
Total Pages: 240
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKHere author Nihal Perera traces the historical construction of contemporary social space in Sri Lanka, through the lens of successively colonized and decolonized, then postcolonial spatial transformations. Perera argues that the politics governing the construction of space is of primary importance for those seeking to understand a particular society and culture.
