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Tracing Cultural Nationalism in Traditional Homeland-based Solution to the Sri Lankan Ethnic Conflict- a Discourse Analysis Approach to the Represented Media Texts.

Jeyaseelan, G. (The Centre for Contemporary Theory, Baroda in collaboration with the Dept. of English of Goa University, 2007)

The ethnic conflict, which has claimed the lives of more than 70,000 people, is an ongoing intensive, political as well as military conflict on the island-nation of Sri Lanka since 1983. It is predominantly between the ...
Making Sense of ‘Democracy’: Constructing Ideological and Attitudinal Positions in Media Discourse on Conflict and International Intervention in Sri Lanka.

Jeyaseelan, G. (The Centre for Contemporary Theory, Baroda in collaboration with the Department of English, Banaras Hindu University, 2008)

This paper studies the media construction of ‘democracy’ in commenting on policies, nations, communities, parties, organizations and individuals in the background of the conflict and international intervention in Sri Lanka ...
A Discourse Analysis of the Historical Socio-environmental perspectives of the Batticaloa region is presented in the work of F.X.C. Nadarajah.

Jeyaseelan, G.; Manobavan, M. (University of Colombo, the Sociological Association of Sri Lanka, 2009)

Batticaloa, unlike any region in Sri Lanka, is considered unique as its socio-environmental system is characterized by the complex and sensitive interface which the society has evolved with the coastal water bodies such ...
The impacts of the War on the economic and human security issues of the farmers of Northern Sri Lanka in addressing Prevention of recurrence, reaching for prosperity after the War.

Jeyaseelan, G. (The Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka and the Open University of Sri Lanka, 2010)

Although much importance is given to the details of the impacts of the conflicts and of the conflicts themselves in international literature, farmers’ problems and survival strategies in a conflict situation have been ...
Promoting Dairy Industry after the War: a case study of the SEED project in the Vavuniya District.

Jeyaseelan, G.; Mangaleswaran, T. (Royal Asiatic Society of SriLanka ICSLS, 2010)

This paper investigates the performance of the community based project which was started in 2007 and implemented by the Social Economical and Environmental Developers (SEED) mainly in the areas of Sekkadipulavu and ...
Dairy Market Trends in Vavuniya: Identifying Potentials and Challenges in A Post-Conflict Setting

Jeyaseelan, G.; Mangaleswaran, T.; Morais, N. (The Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2010)

Vavuniya is primarily an agricultural district. Milk production is an important secondary source of livelihood for the rural people. The aim of this study is to map the potentials and challenges of dairy market in Vavuniya ...
Synthesizing the historiographical aspects found in literature for building a descriptive model of the man-nature interfaces in post-colonial Batticaloa: A discourse analytic approach

Jeyaseelan, G.; Manobavan, M. (The Department of Geography of the University of Ruhunu, 2010)

Physical geographers, when trying to understand the interfaces between natural .resource bases and the human society in any given geographical area need to understand how the system has evolved during the course of its ...
Conflict Adaptability Strategies in the ‘Production” and “Consumption” activities in rural Vavuniya, Sri Lanka.

Jeyaseelan, G. (The 9th Asia Pacific Roundtable for Sustainable Consumption and Production (APRSCP). Colombo, 2010)

Production is a fundamental activity in any societal unit that is striving to self-regulate and evolve into a much stable system. In an economy such as that of Sri Lanka, the basic communal unit is of rural origins, and ...
Ethnic Conflict, Peace and Development in the Editorials of the Sri Lankan English Newspapers - A Media Discourse Analysis

Jeyaseelan, G. (Eastern University of Sri Lanka, 2010)

Discourse constitutes power in constructing ideational, textual and interpersonal constructs which are ideological. It can transmit and even legitimize power in society. In the post-conflict development scenario, the editors ...
Ethnic Conflict and International Relations: an analysis of Metaphorical Construction of the Sri Lankan English Newspaper Editorials.

Jeyaseelan, G. (The Open University of Sri Lanka, 2011)

This study examines the metaphorical construction of ethnic conflict and international relations in Sri Lankan English newspaper editorials published during the ceasefire period between the Government of Sri Lanka and the ...
English Language Performance and reaching profession - A Case study of the Conflict-affected Vavuniya District of sri Lanka

Jeyaseelan, G. (English Language Performance and reaching profession - A Case study of the Conflict-affected Vavuniya District of sri Lanka, 2011)

The English Language Teaching, especially in the war-torn North of Sri Lanka where the English Language Teaching (ELT) profession on its decline in the context of the politico-military instability in the past in that region, ...
A Discourse Analysis of Ethnic Conflict and Peace in the Editorials of English Newspapers A Case Study of Sri Lanka

Jeyaseelan, G. (National Centre for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences (NCAS), 2012)

Discourse constitutes power in constructing ideational, textual and interpersonal constructs which are ideological. It can transmit and even legitimize power in society. In the post-war development scenario, the editorials ...
The 'Translocal' Nationalism of the Sri Lankan Tamil Diaspora: A Reading of Selected Short Stories of V.N. Giridharan

Jeyaseelan, G. (Department of Tamil, Presidency College, Affiliated to University of Madras, Chennai, 2012)

The Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora has a strong presence now in North America, Europe, etc; The ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka necessitated migration since the mid 1980s. Like many modern diasporic communities, the Sri Lankan ...
The Errors in the Use of Article in Business Letter Writing in English: A Case Study of the Business Management Students of Vavuniya Campus, Sri Lanka

Unknown author (The South Eastern University of Sri Lanka, 2013)

This paper investigates the errors in the use of articles in business letter writing in English. It is a case study of the Business Management Students of Vavuniya Campus, University of Jaffna in Sri Lanka. The study ...
Reconciliation between Tamils and Sinhalese in Sri Lanka: Propaganda in Media Discourse

Jeyaseelan, G. (Department of Tamil, Presidency College, Affiliated to University of Madras, Chennai, 2013)

This paper applies the ‘propaganda model’ of media operations developed by Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky in Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media to the Sri Lankan Media’s discourse construction. ...
The Use of Prepositions in Business Letter Writing in English: an Applied Linguistic Analytical Approach to Language Learning.

Jeyaseelan, G. (The Department of English, University of Kelaniya, 2013)

Sri Lanka needs more applied linguistic research on the appropriate or acceptable use of language structures in English or in business English writing based on contrastive or error analytical approaches. This paper ...
The Reflections of Memory and Trauma in Anne Ranasinghe's Holocaust Poems

Sarmatha, S.; Sivapalan, C.C.A. (Faculty of Management Studies & Commerce, University of Jaffna., 2015)

The aim of this study is to examine Anne Ranasinghe’s Holocaust poems on the basis of Memory and Trauma. In the literary world Anne Ranasinghe is known as a Holocaust writer and her collection of the Holocaust poems bears ...
Achieving National Integration and Spiritual Harmony Through Rabindranath Tagore's Gitanjali

Sarmatha, S. (Jaffna Science Association, University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka, 2016)

By promoting National integration and Harmony through the literature it is possible to provide peaceful resolution for national and global problems and is able to build up a harmonious civilization of humankind. Rabindranarth ...
A Study of recurrent grammatical errors in writing English among undergraduates

Sarmatha, S. (Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Sri Jayewardenepura., 2016)

Writing in English is a mode of written communication and it is an important part of academic writing at tertiary level. In the writing process, a student expresses his/her thoughts and ideas on a particular subject through ...
The Trees: A Collateral Victim of War: An Ecopoetic View

Sarmatha, S. (University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka, 2016)

This study examines ecological emphasis on trees as the collateral victim of war and the human empathy towards Nature. Unlike the English romantic poets; John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelly, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor ...

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