Noel Dassanayake
Biographic Data
| ID | 6307500 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Noel Dassanayake |
| GIVEN NAMES | Noel |
| FAMILY NAME | Dassanayake |
| SIGNATURE | DASSANAYAKE N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka, Belihuloya, Sri Lanka |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6041-5601 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Colonial legacies, geopolitical dynamics, and the future of language policy and planning in Sri Lanka
While the colonial legacy continues to linger in the socio-cultural domain, the influence of geopolitical power blocs has dramatically escalated due to the geostrategic location of Sri Lanka. The primary objectives of the present study were to identify the key causes behind the language policy and planning issues in Sri Lanka from a historical perspective and to examine their subsequent consequences on the current language ecology of the country.…
Language Politics in Sri Lanka
This study, based partly on archival research, tackles a number of interrelated issues regarding the sociolinguistic dynamics of language politics in Sri Lanka from the colonial era to the present. In colonial Ceylon, such politics initially manifested as resistance against foreign elements, but later evolved into internal conflicts when majoritarian Sinhala-focused linguistic purism movements appropriated Sinhala as a national identity marker. T…
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Language Politics in Sri Lanka
This study, based partly on archival research, tackles a number of interrelated issues regarding the sociolinguistic dynamics of language politics in Sri Lanka from the colonial era to the present. In colonial Ceylon, such politics initially manifested as resistance against foreign elements, but later evolved into internal conflicts when majoritarian Sinhala-focused linguistic purism movements appropriated Sinhala as a national identity marker. T…
Colonial legacies, geopolitical dynamics, and the future of language policy and planning in Sri Lanka
While the colonial legacy continues to linger in the socio-cultural domain, the influence of geopolitical power blocs has dramatically escalated due to the geostrategic location of Sri Lanka. The primary objectives of the present study were to identify the key causes behind the language policy and planning issues in Sri Lanka from a historical perspective and to examine their subsequent consequences on the current language ecology of the country.…
Colonialism (2 works) · Language policy (2 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Epistemology (1 works) · Foreign policy (1 works) · Gender Studies (1 works) · Gender Studies (1 works) · Geopolitics (1 works) · German Colonialism and Identity Studies (1 works)