Junior Research Symposia
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Item A Linguistic Analysis on the Language Used in Short Message Services(Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Sewwandi, K.A.S.The necessity for an efficient concise language in communication has been the reason behind evolution of Short Message Language. They are used for different communicative purposes. Development in Communication and Technology have paved the way for an expansion of Short Message Services. Therefore, instead of a voice message the ability to send and receive text messages is popular these days. Hence this research focuses on studying the language used in short texts conveying a message. The research was conducted by observing fifty people including both young and adult population who use Short Message Service in their daily activities. Data were gathered by analysing the way they use language in short messages. It was observed that this method could be employed for broad conversations. Communication through available templates allow the sender to convey the intended message within a short time duration. Symbols and unique abbreviations are used in communicating via short messages. Usage of idiolect have become the recent trend with regarded to the language employed in Short Message Services.Item Corpus Planning Situation of the Sinhalese Language in the Latter Part of the 20th Centu'1'; A Linguistic Study on Word Dividing Rules(Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Dissanayake, K.C.M.Corpus planning is involved with creating standard for a language such as spelling, grammar or creating dictionaries. It is a deliberate effort to influence the structure of the language. This study intends to analyse the word dividing rules of written Sinhalese. Data were collected from the written records published time to time by the government on word dividing rules in the latter part of the 20th century. Communication is the major function of language and the effective communication relies on words. The word is a single distinct meaningful element of speech or writing which may consist of a sound, a combination of sounds, a single morpheme or a combination of morphemes. When there were no word dividing rules, writers, publishers, teachers and students used to divide the words as they desire. It influenced badly on the standard of Sinhalese language. So, some experts in the Sinhalese language decided to introduce some rules for it. As the results of their discussions they decided to implement some acceptable word dividing rules in the written Sinhalese. Then they made some state documents including those rules. Those documents were revised from time to time and new documents were created. The major objective of this study is to comparatively analyse those documents and to forward a new proposal for the word dividing rules.Item Morphological processes in the language of Facebook(Faculty of Humanities, University of Kelaniya, 2015) Mallawaarachchi, I.A.Social networks including Facebook®, Twitter® and Instagram® have gained popularity throughout the world and thus have emerged with distinct cultures of their own. The fact that interactions on them are done ‘virtually’ without one to one communication emphasises the significance of written medium of communication in social media. This stance is evident in the culture of Facebook where a considerable number of Sri Lankans are engaged in social networking. Online chatting, posting various updates, captioning photos and videos are done through texts, thus ‘language’ plays a key role in the communication that takes place. Therefore, a remarkable linguistic culture has emerged, with numerous ‘new words’ entering the language every day. Accordingly this study concentrates on the usage of English particularly by Sri Lankans who interact through Facebook. However, in the instances where borrowings are concerned, the influences from and upon Sinhalese are also discussed. Various social and cultural implications were taken into consideration in order to analyse the semantic changes and culture – bound expressions. The proposed study is a participant observation in which the researcher conducted the analysis while actively participating in the activities that happen on Facebook. A number of Facebook profiles of both Sri Lankan and foreign users, Facebook chats, Facebook pages that are administered by local and foreign users and the design of the website in general are thus considered the primary source whereas the literature on morphological processes and the language on the internet serves as the secondary source. The analysis of these new words exposes various morphological processes, which are compounding, initialism, acronym, semantic expansion, affixation, blending, semantic shift, functional shift and borrowing. Remarkably, existing words are employed to create new words and new meanings rather than coining entirely new words. A significant number of morphological processes attempt to shorten longer phrases and sentences.