Unpublished work - Sri Lankan English

Abeywickrama, P. (2014, July 11). Reflection, research and innovation in language assessment [Plenary]. Research Symposium on English Language Studies. University of Colombo.

Ashmead, P. and Olsen-Smith, G. (2017). Complicating Factors of English Usage in a Post-Colonial Context: A Linguistic Survey of Sri Lanka. 2017 Undergraduate Research and Scholarship Conference, Boise State University. Abstract.

Bernaisch, T. & J. Degenhardt (20 Aug 2021). Apologies in Indian and Sri Lankan English. ICAME 42. TU Dortmund University. Abstract.

Bernaisch, T. & N. Funke (20 Aug 2021) Intensifiers and downtoners in South Asian Englishes: Corpus-based perspectives on Indian and Sri Lankan English. ICAME 42. TU Dortmund University. Abstract.

Fernando, D. (2007, November 16). Coping up with the difference: Sri Lankan English and its implications for teaching English in Sri Lanka. Perkumpulan. English Language Teaching Unit, University of Kelaniya.

Fernando, D. (2008, February 26). What is Sri Lankan English? Guest lecture. Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya.

Fernando, D. (2008, March 25). Sri Lankan English in recent Sri Lankan women’s writing: Linguistic conformism or liberation? Seminar on Post Colonial Sri Lankan Women’s Writing in English. Women’s Education and Research Centre (WERC), Colombo.

Fernando, D. (2010, November 18). Developing guidelines for Standard Sri Lankan English phonology. National RESC Conference 2010. National Institute of Education, Meepe, Sri Lanka.

Fernando, D. (2012, November 22). Investigating the sociocultural competence of ESL learners through Sri Lankan English borrowings in the classroom. Annual Research Symposium of the Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya. Abstract.

Fernando, D. (2014, October 3). Do ‘hall’ and ‘hole’ still matter? A study ofuniversity students’ perceptions of Sri Lankan English pronunciation. 8th International Conference of the Sri Lanka English Language Teachers’ Association, SLFI, Colombo.

Fernando, D. & Sivaji, K. (2012, September 7-9). Towards an inclusive Standard Sri Lankan English for ELT in Sri Lanka:Identifying and validating pronunciation features of L1 Tamil speakers. 7th International Conference of the Sri Lanka English Language Teachers’ Association, Colombo.

Fernando, S. (2003, November 28-30). The vocabulary of Sri Lankan English: Words and phrases that transform a foreign language into their own. 9th International Conference on Sri Lanka Studies. Matara, Sri Lanka.

Fonseka, E. A. G. (2003, November 28-30). Sri Lankan English: Exploding the fallacy. 9th International Conference on Sri Lanka Studies. Matara, Sri Lanka.

Gilmour, K. (2007). A Review of the Literature on Sri Lankan English. Research Forum of the Postgraduate Institute of English (PGIE), the Open University of Sri Lanka. 14 December 2007. Abstract.

Gunesekera, M. (1989). Discourse genres in English newspapers of Singapore, South India and Sri Lanka. (Unpublished doctoral dissertation). University of Michigan. Abstract.

Kandiah, T. (1999). Re-visioning, revolution, revisionism: English and the ambiguities of post-colonial practice. The Ludowyk Lecture 1999. University of Peradeniya.

Parakrama, A. (2014, July 11). Extra-Linguistic Value (of Sri Lankan English) = Zugzwang (for Non-Elite Users) [Plenary]. Research Symposium on English Language Studies. University of Colombo.

Premawardhena, N. C. (2003, November 28-30). Impact of English loan words on Modern Sinhala. 9th International Conference on Sri Lanka Studies. Matara, Sri Lanka.


Ranaweera, M. (21 Aug 2021). A corpus-based study of pragmatic markers in the spoken discourse of women in Sri Lankan English. ICAME 42. TU Dortmund University. Abstract.

Ranaweera, M. C. (2007). Register Variation in Sri Lankan English newspaper language. (Unpublished Master's thesis). Northern Arizona University.

Ranaweera, M. (2007, December 14). Register Variation in Sri Lankan English. Research Forum of the Postgraduate Institute of English (PGIE) - Open University of Sri Lanka. Nawala, Sri Lanka.

Shantha Kumara, M.D.S. & Mendis, D. (2010, October). Making out SLE: A corpus based study of Sri Lankan English phrasal verbs. 6th International SLELTA Conference. Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Vuorivirta, M. (2006). The characteristic lexical features of Standard Sri Lankan English. (unpublished Master's thesis). University of Jyvaskyla.