Sri Lankan Englishes

The Routledge Handbook of World Englishes

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 181-196

  Mendis, Dushyanthi ^a   Rambukwella, Harshana ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOMBO   (Sri Lanka)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

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