Forms of Welcoming, Thanking and Expressing Good Wishes in Limbu and English

Abstract

This research work entitled “Forms of welcoming, thanking and expressing good wishes in Limbu and English” has been carried out to find out the forms of welcoming, thanking and expressing good wishes in Limbu and to compare and contrast them with those of the English language. It compared and contrasted on the basis of the language forms used for respected people, family members, relatives, strangers, friends, mother, father, elder brother, sister, great festivals. The data were collected from 40 native speakers of Panchthare dialect of the Limbu language. The informants were selected using purposiven on random sampling procedure from Kurule Tenupa V.D.C. in Dhankuta of data for English were collected from different books, thesis,dictionaries and articles. The researcher found that both English and Limbu native speakers use formal and polite form while welcoming to the respected people, relatives, unfamiliar friends and with senior family members. They use the informal form of welcoming with junior family members, familiar friends and with servant. Limbu native speakers use the polite form of thanking with the mother compared to the English people. While expressing good wishes on the occasion of birthdays, marriage anniversary sand on great festivals speaker of the both languages use the polite and formal form. This is divided into five different chapters. The first chapter, ‘introduction’includes the background, statements of the problem, objectives of the study,research question, significance, delimitations and operational definition of the key terms. Chapter second, deals with the theoretical literature, empirical literature, implications and conceptual frameworks. The third chapter deals with the methodology employed to conduct the study. The methods and procedures of the study incorporate the research design, population, sample and sampling strategy,study areas and tools,data collection tools and techniques,data collection procedure and data analysis and interpretation procedure come under in third chapter. Analysis and interpretation of results are presented in viii the fourth chapter. The fifth chapter deals with the conclusions and recommendations. Some implications of the study in policy level, practice level and further research are presented in this section. This chapter is followed by reference and appendices to make the study scientific, valid, reliable and authentic.