English Loanwords in The Nepali Newspapers:A Descriptive Study

Abstract

The present thesis entitled “English Loanwords in the NepaliNewspapers” aims at finding out the English loanwords used in the NepaliNewspapers, analyzing word's classes and identifying assimilated and non-assimilated words. Observation sheets were prepared to collect data andaccording to the objectives of the study they were analyzed. For such words which were in common use but were not available in theNBSK the Nepali language experts were consulted and the researcher tried toelicit the views from them. The findings of the research show that there are 8824 loan words in sixmain Nepali National Daily Newspapers. Out of 8824 loan words, 7934(89.91%) are nouns, whicharefollowed by verbs 472 (5.34%), adjectives 206(2.33%) and adverbs 16 (1.81%) respectively. Other parts of speech(prepositions, conjunctions, articles and determines) take the share of 196(2.22%). Among the total number of loanwords, there are 3733 assimilated and5091 non-assimilated words which are 42.30 percent and 57.96 percentrespectively. The largest number of loanwords is borrowed from English in theKantipur, Nepali National Daily Newspaper. This thesis altogether contains four chapters. Chapter one deals withintroduction. It consists of general background, introduction to journalism,history of journalism, an introduction to Nepali National Daily Newspapers,code-switching and code-mixing, an introduction to loan words and factorsleading to loan words, words, review of related literature, and objectives of thestudy and significance of the study. Chapter two describes the methodology applied in order to carry out thisresearch. It consists of sources of data, tools for data collection, process of datacollection and limitations of the study. Chapter three deals with analysis and interpretation of data. It consists ofdescription of linguistic units, classification of word class, identification ofassimilated and non-assimilated words and views of the experts in conclusion. Chapter four presents the summary of findings, pedagogical implicationsand recommendation for further research.