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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Sinhala"”.
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Sinhala folk music : its vocal traditions and stylistic nuances
… and characteristics of vocal improvisation in Sinhala folk music, the music of Sri Lanka. This study examines the vocal nuances and expressions of Sinhala folk and identifies the idiosyncratic nature of vocal improvisation and how it is applied in Sinhala folk music. Considered a dying art form …
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Sinhala folk music : its vocal traditions and stylistic nuances
… and characteristics of vocal improvisation in Sinhala folk music, the music of Sri Lanka. This study examines the vocal nuances and expressions of Sinhala folk and identifies the idiosyncratic nature of vocal improvisation and how it is applied in Sinhala folk music. Considered a dying art form …
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Nation -State, Development, and Community in a Rural Sinhala Setting
My approach is guided by the theoretical stance that, contrary to its vociferous claim to prove otherwise, the nation-state's project of social integration, totalization, and unification is carried through the denial of particularities and differences, because the nation-state's assertion of format …
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Positive Polarity and Exhaustivity in Sinhala: A Study of its Implications for Grammar
… focus is on two positive polarity particles in Sinhala, an Indo-Aryan language spoken in Sri Lanka. Sinhala has two particles -hari and -da that systematically appear across disjunction, indefinite and question constructions. Traditionally, these particles have been called Q-particles (i.e. …
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THE AESTHETICS OF AUTHORITY: EMOTIONS, DEVOTION AND POWER IN THE SINHALA BUDDHIST LITERATURE OF MEDIEVAL SRI LANKA
The project examines the continuities and divergences in aesthetic philosophy from Pali Buddhist and Sanskrit literature to that of medieval Sri Lanka. Special attention is given to the association of moral authority with the capacity for literary and artistic production, and the means by which …
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Teaching-learning of Sinhala literacy skills in Deaf primary schools in Sri Lanka - A mixed methods inquiry
… Lanka also informs of the significantly limited Sinhala literacy skills of Deaf students. This challenge is viewed reinforcing a ripple effect with Deaf students poor educational performance extending to long term restrictions in societal participation. Identifying the underlying limitations and …
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Formal and philological inquiries into the nature of interrogatives, indefinites, disjunction, and focus in Sinhala and other languages
… focusses on the analysis of such elements in Sinhala, with comparison to Malayalam, Tlingit, and Japanese. The central part of the study concerns the proper syntactic and semantic analysis of Q[uestion]-particles (including Sinhala ""da"", Malayalam ""-oo"", Japanese ""ka""), which, in many …
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The Sinhalese Buddhist Diaspora in the United Kingdom: Negotiating Sinhalese Identity
… underpinned by a literature review of sources on Sinhala Buddhist history and civilization in Sri Lanka and the Sinhalese presence in the United Kingdom in order to set the background for this research. The review of literature revealed a rich history of Sinhalese Buddhist civilization in Sri …
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Decomposing questions
… languages (focusing mainly on Japanese, Sinhala, Shuri Okinawan, and premodern Japanese). We contrast two unrelated languages, Japanese and Sinhala, which form questions in a nearly identical way, but which differ in the placement of Q. We hypothesize that in both languages Q moves from a …
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(In)security and storytelling in Sri Lanka: negotiating safe spaces to remember, reenact and reconcile violence
… Up-Country Tamil girls and women and southern Sinhala men - to be addressed, it is necessary for their stories to be recognised and acknowledged by being shared out loud. Storytelling, therefore, simultaneously generates security and insecurity, a paradox I explore with the term '(in)security.' …
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Genealogies of the Postcolonial State: Insurgency, Emergency, and Democracy in Sri Lanka
… and explaining the cultural force of Sinhala nationalist ideology. My dissertation asks that we set aside this problematic and instead foreground the question of the secular inheritances of the state as the target of our critical strategies.
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Food security, gender roles, and information exchange in the shrimp farming industry of Sri Lanka
… extension services should be available in both Sinhala and Tamil. Increasing women’s participation in shrimp farming should only be considered in light of cultural gender roles and motivations of women to work in shrimp farming.
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Strange(r) Maps: The cosmopolitan geopolitics of Sri Lankan tourism
… ways that the exclusionary politics of the Sinhala-Buddhist state are implicated in the representations on the tourist map, Chapters 4-6 look at cultural tourist sites, natural or wildlife sites, and former war zones, respectively. Overall, this is an interdisciplinary examination between …
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The politics of local government and development in Sri Lanka: An analysis of the contribution of non-governmental organisations (NGOs)
… but none have been fully implemented. The Sinhala nationalist parties and groups which have supported successive governments have generally rejected all decentralisation proposals. Moreover, the political elite has long been oriented towards and accepting of strong leadership from the …
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Gender variation in Gulf Pidgin Arabic
… Malayalam, Punjabi, Bengali, Tagalog, Sinhala, and Sunda. Interviews were conducted in Riyadh, the capital city of Saudi Arabia. Half of the informants had spent five years or less in the Gulf, while the other half had spent 10 years or more in the area at the time of interview. The …