
Graduate Mini-Conference – 2014
The inaugural Department of English Graduate Mini-Conference was held on the 26th of August 2014. The event featured paper presentations by the Department’s most recently graduated Honours (Special) Degree class based on their BA dissertation research.
The event attracted a large number of current students and is expected to become an annual feature of the Department’s calendar.
- A Study of the Attitudes towards the Humor Associated with Sri Lankan English as a Variety Based on the Youtube Videos of Jehanr – Tharushi Jayarathna
- An Attitudinal Study on the Elocution Enterprise in the Current Sri Lankan Context:An Evaluation of its Function and Efficacy – Upeksha Jayasuriya
- A Discourse Analysis of Media Representations on Ethnic Identities During 1983 and 2013 – Safiya Cader
- Language Manipulation in the American Gun Debate: A Corpus Based CDA Study – Nadeera Wijegunawardena
- Fragmented Selves in Beckett’s plays – An exploration of Beckett’s thematic evocation of the self in Waiting for Godot, Endgame and Krapp’s Last Tape – Achala Dissanayake
- A critique of the English In-Service Teacher Training Programme at the Maharagama Teachers Training College – Isuri Kathriarachchi
- Writing Nature, Writing Violence: An Analysis of the Representations of Nature and itsConnection with Violence in Romesh Gunesekera’sPrisoner of Paradise– Thakshala Tissera
- Standards, Acceptance and Variation:Analysing Schneider’sDynamic Modelfrom a Sri Lankan Perspective – Thilini de Alwis
- “Framing the Child: An Analysis of Textual Agenda in Selected Children’s Literature” – Nileptha Magallage