Pragmatic nativisation in spoken Sri Lankan English: a corpus-based study

本项目致力于对斯里兰卡英语口语的语用习惯进行实证性描述。长期以来，南亚英语一直被认为是英语的同质变体，因此被归入单一的术语南亚英语，该术语经常被用作印度英语的隐含同义词。因此，到目前为止，除了印度以外的不同南亚国家，很少有人关注英语的地区性多样化--这也是因为普遍缺乏足够的实证数据库。斯里兰卡的英语也是如此，尽管这种变化构成了南亚唯一一种不是印度英语的直系后裔的后殖民英语。虽然基于真实语言数据的斯里兰卡书面英语的第一次描述最近已经出现，但到目前为止，斯里兰卡英语口语在很大程度上仍然没有证据证明。这个项目旨在加深我们对斯里兰卡英语口语的理解，这对其他后殖民时期的英语也是有意义的。与历史上斯里兰卡英语的输入变体英国英语和南亚最大的英语变体印度英语相比，本项目提供了基于语料库的描述，说明在考虑社会生物说话者信息的情况下，斯里兰卡英语口语在组织和行动层面的语用本地化。为了在有效的数据库中建立上述分析的基础，完成了第一个斯里兰卡英语口语语料库，其中包括从朋友之间的非正式聊天到正式政治演讲的所有使用语境，并作为国际英语语料库斯里兰卡语料库的一部分出版。

This project focuses on the empirical description of the pragmatic routines of spoken Sri Lankan English. For a long time, English in South Asia has been regarded as a homogeneous variant of English and has thus been subsumed under the monolithic term South Asian English, which has often been employed as an implicit synonym for Indian English. Consequently, only little academic attention - also due to a general lack of adequate empirical databases - has so far been paid to the regional diversification of English in the different South Asian nations outside India. This is also true of English in Sri Lanka, although this variety constitutes the only postcolonial English in South Asia which is not a direct descendant of Indian English. While first descriptions of written Sri Lankan English based on authentic language data have become available recently, spoken Sri Lankan English has so far largely remained empirically undocumented. This project aims at furthering our understanding of spoken Sri Lankan English, which is also of relevance for other postcolonial Englishes. In comparison to British English, the historical input variety of Sri Lankan English, and Indian English, the largest variety of English in South Asia, this project offers corpus-based descriptions of the pragmatic nativisation of spoken Sri Lankan English on the organisational and actional level under consideration of sociobiographic speaker information. In order to ground said analyses in a valid database, the first representative corpus of spoken Sri Lankan English comprising all contexts of use from informal chats between friends to formal political speeches is completed and published as a part of the Sri Lankan component of the International Corpus of English.