Place and time deixis in Bajhangi and English

Abstract

The present thesis entitled "Place and Time Deixis in English and Bajhangi" aimed to determine the Bajhangi place and time deixis. This was based on primary and secondary data.The data were collected from the 50 native speakers of Bajhangi dialect. The informants were selected using non- random purposive sampling procedure from Baynsi and Kadel VDC's in Bajhang District. The data were collected with the help of interviews and questionnaires. The responses were listed, tabulated and compared for analysis and interpretation. On the basis of analysis and interpretation the researcher came to the conclusion that theBajhangi has more proximal deictic expression than English. Bajhangi is richer than English regarding distaland time deictic expression. Proximal time deictic expressions are realized by present tense and distal expression by future and past in Bajhangi. Same place deictic proximal and distal term is optionally denoted by various terms in Bajhangi in many cases. This thesis is organized into five chapters. The first chapter deals with the background of the topic, statement of the problem, objective of the study, research questions, significance of the study, delimitations of the study and operational definition of the key terms. The second chapter includes review of related theoretical literature, review of related empirical literature, implication of the review for the study and conceptual frame work. The third chapter covers the areas of methodology. likewise, the fourth chapter presents the analysis and interpretation of result and summary of the findings and the fifth chapter includes conclusions and recommendations and three different areas (policy related, practice related and further related). Finally the references and appendices were included.