{"id":94,"date":"2018-09-11T10:55:47","date_gmt":"2018-09-11T10:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?page_id=94"},"modified":"2023-11-23T08:27:32","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T08:27:32","slug":"home-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/english\/d.mendis\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;37&#8243; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; style=&#8221;vc_box_shadow&#8221;][vc_btn title=&#8221;Google Scholar&#8221; style=&#8221;outline-custom&#8221; outline_custom_color=&#8221;#666666&#8243; outline_custom_hover_background=&#8221;#666666&#8243; outline_custom_hover_text=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; align=&#8221;center&#8221; el_class=&#8221;research-btn&#8221; link=&#8221;url:https%3A%2F%2Fscholar.google.com%2Fcitations%3Fuser%3Dy-GXGx0AAAAJ%26hl%3Den%26oi%3Dao|||&#8221;][vc_btn title=&#8221;Academia.edu&#8221; style=&#8221;outline-custom&#8221; outline_custom_color=&#8221;#666666&#8243; outline_custom_hover_background=&#8221;#666666&#8243; outline_custom_hover_text=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; align=&#8221;center&#8221; el_class=&#8221;research-btn&#8221; link=&#8221;url:https%3A%2F%2Fcmb.academia.edu%2FDushyanthiMendis|||&#8221;][vc_btn title=&#8221;ResearchGate&#8221; style=&#8221;outline-custom&#8221; outline_custom_color=&#8221;#666666&#8243; outline_custom_hover_background=&#8221;#666666&#8243; outline_custom_hover_text=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; align=&#8221;center&#8221; el_class=&#8221;research-btn&#8221; link=&#8221;url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.researchgate.net%2Fprofile%2FDushyanthi_Mendis|||&#8221;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;134&#8243; img_size=&#8221;225*300&#8243; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;3\/4&#8243;]<h1 class=\"fac-big-title fac-title text-left\" style=\"color:#4b4b4b\">Professor Dushyanthi Mendis<\/h1>\n<h2 class=\"fac-title text-left\" style=\"color:#1f75c1\">BIOGRAPHY<\/h2>\n[vc_column_text]I am currently a Professor in English at the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. I have a BA in English from the University of Peradeniya, an MA in Linguistics (TESOL) from Ohio University, and a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Michigan. My research interests are the broad fields of sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, academic English and Sri Lankan English(es). 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