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Publication details [#45990]

Abeywickrama, Priyanvada. 2007. Do We Codeswitch or Codemix in Sri Lanka? Journal of multicultural discourses 2 (1) : 63–77.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingualism | code-mixing | code-switching | discourse analysis | language and culture

Language as a subject

English | Sinhala | Tamil

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Annotation

This study employs a discourse analytic perspective to examine the possibility that codeswitching between Sinhala and English in Sri Lankan conversations are in transition to ‘codemixing’, pointing to the development of a new cultural discourse pattern in Sri Lanka.