The Sri
Lankan component of ICE is
based at the University of Giessen,
Germany.
The written component of the ICE-SL corpus is now available, in SGML format and in a POS-tagged version. To obtain a copy, please email ice-sl@anglistik.uni-giessen.de
Contact:
Professor Dr Joybrato
Mukherjee
Department of English
University of
Giessen
Germany
Email: Joybrato.Mukherjee@anglistik.uni-geissen.de
Chris Tribble,
British Council (Senior Advisor)
Marco
Schilk
University of Giessen
Dr
Dushyanthi Mendis
School of Computing
University of
Colombo
Sri Lanka
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The Constitution of Sri Lanka specifies in its section on 'official languages' that Sinhala and Tamil are the 'national languages' of Sri Lanka, while English is labelled a 'link language'. English is used by many Sri Lankans as their second language. There is also a small group of L1 speakers of English in Sri Lanka. As Mesthrie and Bhatt (2008: 200) point out, "Sri Lankan English is not simply 'English in Sri Lanka', but a variety with a certain regional and social identity."
Population: c. 23 million.
Reading
Mendis, D. & H. Rambukwella (2010) Sri Lankan Englishes. In Kirkpatrick, A. (ed.) The Routledge Handbook of World Englishes. London: Routledge, pp. 181-196.
Mesthrie, R. & Bhatt, R. M. (2008) World Englishes: The Study of New Linguistic Varieties. Cambridge: CUP.
Mukherjee, J. Schilk, M. & T. Bernaisch (2010) Compiling the Sr Lankan component of ICE: principles, problems, prospects. ICAME Journal 34: 64-77. |
Links
Online Newspapers
Daily News
The
Island
Online Radio
Stations
Sirasa Radio
TNL 101.7-Sri
Lank |
