| dc.description.abstract | - A Language often develops in to a new variety in
order to manifest the new geo - socio- cultural phenomena. In
the contemporary society, Sri Lankan English (SLE) has become
the high yielding way of writing novels/ fictions which are
based on Sri Lankan contexts as a result of the phenomenal
usage of English by the Sinhala-English bilingual population.
Thus, this study aims at emphasizing the fact that the Sri
Lankan English writers tend to preserve the Sri Lankan culture
and identity by incorporating the lexical items from Sinhala and
Tamil languages; the official languages in Sri Lanka. Moreover,
the primary objective of this study is to identify and analyze the
use of Sri Lankan English in Sri Lankan fictions by referring to
five morphological processes. Crucially, five fictions which
contain Sri Lankan English lexical items are selected as the
sample of the study. In the meantime, data gathering was done
as a collaborative work by reading the five fictions in order to
identify the Sri Lankan English lexical items and they were
analyzed using grids. A qualitative data analysis approach was
implemented to identify the use of Sri Lankan English lexical
items in Sri Lankan fictions. Henceforth, this study investigates
the manner in which the Sri Lankan English morphological
processes expose the Sri Lankan culture and tradition whilst
playing a functional role in developing the lexical items of Sri
Lankan English fictions. | |
