Speech Acts in Bajjika and English

Abstract

This research entitled Speech Acts in Bajjika and English has tried to find out different speech acts used by Bajjika and English native speakers. It has also tried to find out similar and different exponents of speech acts in Bajjika and English used by their native speakers and to suggest some pedagogical implications based on the findings of the study. For this study, the researcher took sample consisting of 40 native speakers of the Bajjika language from Aurahi VDC, Sarlahi and 20 native speakers of English language in Kathmandu from different English speaking countries. The informants were selected using purposive non-random sampling procedure. The researcher used questionnaire as tool for data collection. After analyzing the collected data, there searcher came to the conclusion that in both Bajjika and English languages assertive forms are used to express proposition expressions, expressive forms are used to state some psychological state, feelings or attitude. They used interrogative sentences for threatening. While discussing about differences, the English native speakers used interrogative sentences for suggesting but there is no interrogative patterns for suggestion in the Bajjika language. This study is divided into five chapters. Chapter one is an introductory chapter.It includes general background, statement of the problem, objectives, research questions, significance, delimitations and operational definition of the key terms. Chapter two deals with the review of related literature and conceptual framework. Chapter three refers to the methods and procedures of the study.Chapter four presents the analysis and interpretation of results where data are analyzed and summary of findings are discussed. Finally, the fifth chapter incorporates conclusion and recommendations of the research followed by references and appendices.