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Direct linkNoel Dassanayake – Research on Education and Media, 2024
The rapid digitization of communication in the last decade, especially in social networking spaces, has contributed to radical changes in the virtual language environment in Sri Lanka. It has not only reshaped the way individuals communicate, but has also fueled the emergence of new linguistic trends that reflect the dynamic nature of language in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Media, Computer Mediated Communication, Telecommunications
Canagarajah, Suresh – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2011
The shifts underway in contemporary social conditions call for a new alignment between the specializations constituting English Studies: namely, literature, applied linguistics, and rhetoric and composition. Postcolonial social movements have generated new language, textual, and literary practices. These developments bring to the fore practices…
Descriptors: Social Change, Linguistic Borrowing, Specialization, Literature
Peer reviewedFernando, Chitra – Language in Society, 1977
The study describes the language situation of Sri Lanka (Ceylon) and examines the factors governing the language choice of Sinhalese bilinguals while attempting to correlate such factors with domains and role relations. (Author/HP)
Descriptors: Biculturalism, Bilingualism, Contrastive Linguistics, Cultural Pluralism
