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Manique Gunasekera. Sri Lankan English 1 . Definition Sri Lankan English is the language used by Sri Lankans who choose to use English for whatever purpose in Sri Lanka1 . English has been used for various purposes in our country since ...
Manique Gunasekera. Sri Lankan English 1 . Definition Sri Lankan English is the language used by Sri Lankans who choose to use English for whatever purpose in Sri Lanka1 . English has been used for various purposes in our country since ...
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... Sri Lanka is the purpose for which it is used . Professor Doric de Souza13 maintained that English was never an all purpose language in Sri Lanka . It existed alongside Sinhalese and Tamil , the main languages of the country . To a ...
... Sri Lanka is the purpose for which it is used . Professor Doric de Souza13 maintained that English was never an all purpose language in Sri Lanka . It existed alongside Sinhalese and Tamil , the main languages of the country . To a ...
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... language on others . Language change is often misunderstood as ' cor- ruption ' or ' giving into undesirable elements ' when in reality , language change is as common as social change , and cannot be stopped . There ... Sri Lankan English 50.
... language on others . Language change is often misunderstood as ' cor- ruption ' or ' giving into undesirable elements ' when in reality , language change is as common as social change , and cannot be stopped . There ... Sri Lankan English 50.
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Acknowledgments | 7 |
Elitist English | 33 |
Mixing Languages | 49 |
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