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

本项目的重点是斯里兰卡英语口语的语用惯例的实证描述。长期以来，南亚英语一直被视为英语的同质变体，因此被归入单一的术语南亚英语，它经常被用作印度英语的同义词。因此，只有很少的学术关注-也是由于普遍缺乏足够的实证数据库-迄今已支付给英语在不同的南亚国家印度以外的区域多样化。斯里兰卡的英语也是如此，尽管这种变体构成了南亚唯一的后殖民英语，而不是印度英语的直系后裔。虽然书面斯里兰卡英语的基础上真实的语言数据的第一个描述已经成为最近可用，口语斯里兰卡英语到目前为止基本上仍然是经验无证。该项目旨在促进我们对斯里兰卡英语口语的理解，这也与其他后殖民英语有关。在比较英国英语，斯里兰卡英语的历史输入品种，印度英语，在南亚最大的英语品种，该项目提供了基于语料库的描述的语用斯里兰卡英语口语的组织和社会传记的扬声器信息的考虑下，nativisation。为了在一个有效的数据库中进行上述分析，第一个代表性的斯里兰卡英语口语语料库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背景，并作为国际英语语料库的斯里兰卡部分的一部分完成和出版。

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.