Papers by Saambavi Sivaji
Translation scholars have widely focused their attention on the translation of sacred texts and p... more Translation scholars have widely focused their attention on the translation of sacred texts and produced various studies on the translation of scriptures. Among them, studies on the Bible translations occupy a significant place. Hephzibah Israel (2017) is a notable scholar whose work largely deal with the translation of the Bible into Tamil in South India. However, a limited scholarship is available on Jaffna which can be called as the earliest port of Christian missionary activities and had produced Tamil translation of the Bible. Thus, I believe this paper is a timely analysis of the Tamil translation of the Bible in colonial Jaffna. This paper attempts to present a summary of the history of Tamil translation
iPURSE 2021 Conference Proceedings, 2021
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An Analysis of the Phonological features of ‘Jaffna English’ as a Regional Variety
Key Words: Ja... more An Analysis of the Phonological features of ‘Jaffna English’ as a Regional Variety
Key Words: Jaffna English, Standard Sri Lankan English (SSLE), Phonological features
This paper focuses on ‘Jaffna English’ as a regional variety and tries to explore how this regional variety differs from Standard Sri Lankan English (SSLE). Firstly, this paper presents an introduction to SSLE and defines the English that is being used in Jaffna as Jaffna English and identifies it as a neglected variety. Secondly, a literature review of the research that has been done on Jaffna English is presented. The focus of this paper is the phonological features of Jaffna English; the pronunciation of the second language speakers of Jaffna English. Therefore, this paper thirdly presents the pronunciation deviations in the standard and non-standard forms of English spoken in Jaffna. In this region, balanced bilinguals comprise of a minor percentage while the majority learned English only in their tertiary education as a second language. As such, this paper broadly categorizes the phonological data collected by the researcher into four segments as vowel insertion, replacement of phonemes, the addition of phonemes and the articulation of the final voiced alveolar retroflex. In doing so, this paper will explore the similarities and differences in the pronunciations of Jaffna English from SSLE. Finally, this paper will present the reasons for deviation in Jaffna English from SSLE through a detailed analysis of the selected phonological features.
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Papers by Saambavi Sivaji
Key Words: Jaffna English, Standard Sri Lankan English (SSLE), Phonological features
This paper focuses on ‘Jaffna English’ as a regional variety and tries to explore how this regional variety differs from Standard Sri Lankan English (SSLE). Firstly, this paper presents an introduction to SSLE and defines the English that is being used in Jaffna as Jaffna English and identifies it as a neglected variety. Secondly, a literature review of the research that has been done on Jaffna English is presented. The focus of this paper is the phonological features of Jaffna English; the pronunciation of the second language speakers of Jaffna English. Therefore, this paper thirdly presents the pronunciation deviations in the standard and non-standard forms of English spoken in Jaffna. In this region, balanced bilinguals comprise of a minor percentage while the majority learned English only in their tertiary education as a second language. As such, this paper broadly categorizes the phonological data collected by the researcher into four segments as vowel insertion, replacement of phonemes, the addition of phonemes and the articulation of the final voiced alveolar retroflex. In doing so, this paper will explore the similarities and differences in the pronunciations of Jaffna English from SSLE. Finally, this paper will present the reasons for deviation in Jaffna English from SSLE through a detailed analysis of the selected phonological features.
Key Words: Jaffna English, Standard Sri Lankan English (SSLE), Phonological features
This paper focuses on ‘Jaffna English’ as a regional variety and tries to explore how this regional variety differs from Standard Sri Lankan English (SSLE). Firstly, this paper presents an introduction to SSLE and defines the English that is being used in Jaffna as Jaffna English and identifies it as a neglected variety. Secondly, a literature review of the research that has been done on Jaffna English is presented. The focus of this paper is the phonological features of Jaffna English; the pronunciation of the second language speakers of Jaffna English. Therefore, this paper thirdly presents the pronunciation deviations in the standard and non-standard forms of English spoken in Jaffna. In this region, balanced bilinguals comprise of a minor percentage while the majority learned English only in their tertiary education as a second language. As such, this paper broadly categorizes the phonological data collected by the researcher into four segments as vowel insertion, replacement of phonemes, the addition of phonemes and the articulation of the final voiced alveolar retroflex. In doing so, this paper will explore the similarities and differences in the pronunciations of Jaffna English from SSLE. Finally, this paper will present the reasons for deviation in Jaffna English from SSLE through a detailed analysis of the selected phonological features.