Publications

Publication details [#51480]

Coperahewa, Sandagomi. 2009. The language planning situation in Sri Lanka. Current Issues in Language Planning 10 (1) : 69–150.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language planning | language policy | language spread | language status | official language

Language as a subject

English | Sinhala

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This study shows the linguistic, political and ethnic character of language planning in the Sri lankan post-colonial context, exploring Sinhala language spread in the domains of education, literacy and the media and the role of English in a broader context.