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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
Language as a subject
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.