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Manique Gunasekera. Table 6 : Attitudes towards the English Media Daily Obser- Sunday Daily Sunday BBC MTV News ver Times Mirror Leader Colombo 14 % 3 % 18 % 19 % 3 % 17 % 27 % Gampaha 24 % 39 % 23 % 3 % 1 % 10 % Jaffna 44 % 44 % 6 % 56 ...
Manique Gunasekera. Table 6 : Attitudes towards the English Media Daily Obser- Sunday Daily Sunday BBC MTV News ver Times Mirror Leader Colombo 14 % 3 % 18 % 19 % 3 % 17 % 27 % Gampaha 24 % 39 % 23 % 3 % 1 % 10 % Jaffna 44 % 44 % 6 % 56 ...
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... ( Daily Mirror , page 1 , Oct. 13 , 2004 ) Box 2 Govt . condemns TNA statement by Tamilnet website The Governmet yesterday thoroughly condemned a statement in the Tamilnet by TNA Jaffna MP Selvarajah Gajendran where he had said the ...
... ( Daily Mirror , page 1 , Oct. 13 , 2004 ) Box 2 Govt . condemns TNA statement by Tamilnet website The Governmet yesterday thoroughly condemned a statement in the Tamilnet by TNA Jaffna MP Selvarajah Gajendran where he had said the ...
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... Sunday Times Sinhalese 7 Interviewed in Colombo , Dec. 15 , 2003 - Jan. 3 , 2004 . 8 In the Attitudinal Survey of English Usage in Sri Lanka , the majority from Colombo selected the Daily Mirror and the Sunday Times ( both are Wijeya ...
... Sunday Times Sinhalese 7 Interviewed in Colombo , Dec. 15 , 2003 - Jan. 3 , 2004 . 8 In the Attitudinal Survey of English Usage in Sri Lanka , the majority from Colombo selected the Daily Mirror and the Sunday Times ( both are Wijeya ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
Elitist English | 33 |
Mixing Languages | 49 |
Copyright | |
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