Indicating the meaning of words is the most important task of a lexicographer. The branch of Linguistics that deals with meaning is called semantics. It is necessary for a lexicographer to be familiar with semantic concepts ...

Following Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, some scholars ask, can the subaltern dance? It is a question worth asking to understand the privilege of dancers. In dominant archives, the dances of the subalterns are not recorded ...

Though the Postgraduate and Research Department of Folklore at St. Xavier’s College, Palayamkottai, Tamil Nadu, was established in 1987, Folklore Studies as a discipline had already been initiated two decades earlier. ...

This paper draws attention to a “crisis” that may, at one level, be generalized under the broader crisis in the Humanities but could, at another level, be unique to English Studies in Sri Lanka. I refer to the “fall” of ...

This paper examines the soft power politics of China in China-Sri Lanka relations focusing on the economic, political and military dimensions of the ties between the two countries. Sri Lanka’s strategic location in the ...

A significant critique of the World Bank’s problematic role in public higher education is that through its conditionalities it paves the way for privatization and a deterioration of public education systems. In Sri ...