Language Used on Radio Jockey: A Case of Kantipur Fm

Abstract

This present study‘ Language Used on Radio Jockey: A Case of Kantipur FM.’Is an attempt to analyze and describe the kinds of language used by Radio Jockey in terms of specific words, sentence types and language functions. This study was mainly based on the secondary sources of data. The data for the study were collected judgmentally from twenty-five regular programmes broad casted from Kanipur FM. The total sample of the study consisted of twenty-five programmes of different RJs. The required data were collected by using observation as a main tool. This studyrevealed that nouns, simple sentences and expressing and finding out intellectual attitudes were highly used by the RJs in their different programmes. The specific words found in the broadcast programme under this study were eleven thousand six hundred and seventy two words in total. This thesis is divided into four chapters.Chapter one introduces the study in terms of general background, review of the related literature, objectives and significance of the study. Chapter two deals with the methodology adopted for the study under which the sources of data, sampling procedure,tools for data collection, process of data collection and limitations of the study are presented. Similarly, chapter three contains the analysis and interpretation of the data using simple statistical tools like frequency and percentage. Finally, chapter four presents the findings and recommendations of this research. At the end, references and appendices have been included.