A seven member team from the Institute for Anglistik, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany will be in Sri Lanka from 25 July – 11 August, 2015 on a linguistic fieldwork excursion. The excursion is a part of the International Corpus of English – Sri Lanka (ICE-SL), a collaborative research project between the University of Giessen and the Department of English, University of Colombo. The corpus of Sri Lankan English which is being compiled under this project is a linguistic database which will contribute towards the study of how varieties of English develop across the world.
Based at the Department of English, University of Colombo, the excursion team will collect recordings of Sri Lankan English spoken at various events (face to face conversations between friends and family, classroom lessons and demonstrations, talks, news, sports commentary, discussions broadcast on radio and television, etc.). The team comprises of Dilini Algama, a former student of the Department of English, University of Colombo, who is the Coordinator of the ICE-SL project, and six students of the University of Giessen.
