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Item English and Gurung Kinship Terms :A Comparative Study(Department of English Education, 2007) Chapagain, Tanka PrasadThe research entitled"A Comparative Linguistic Study: Englishand Gurung Kinship Terms"presents a clear picture of comparative studybetween English and Gurung kinship terms. The present study has beendone through both consaguineal and affinal types across five generationsfrom both perspective viz. male and female ego in English and Gurung .The kinship relationships of English and Gurung have also been studied byboth addressive and appellativeuses from the perspectives of both maleand female ego. The Gurung data was taken through the native speakers of Gurungby applying oral structured interviews, which were based on pre-determined set of questions. The researcher collected data from Syangja district from two VDCs(Eladi and Manakamana) and one municipality (Waling) for Gurungkinship terms and he collected English kinship terms from the secondarysources such as previoustheses, books,magazines, internet etc. The main objectives of this study were to determine different termsused for English and Gurung kinship relations and to compare and contrastthose terms. The major findings are that Gurung language is rich in termsof kinship terms in comparison to the English language. And thesystemsof Gurung kinship term and English terms have the relations of Mono-Gurung vs. Multi English and Mono-English vs. Multi-Gurung. In additionto this, there is a slight difference between one to one correspondencerelationships of the appellative forms to signify the same relation of thegiven languages.This thesis has four chapters. The first chapter consists of generalbackground, literature review, objectives of the study, significance of thestudy and definition of various kinship terminologies. Similarly, the second chapter contains sources of data, population ofthe study, sampling procedure, research tools and process of datacollection and limitation of the study. Likewise, the third chapter includes analysis and interpretation ofthe data, which is main part of the thesis and finally, the fourth chapterconsists of findings, recommendations and pedagogical implications.Item Forms of welcoming, thanking, and expressing good wishes in Gurung and English(Department of English Education, 2017) Gurung, Lok BahadurThis research work entitled Forms of Welcoming, Thanking and Expressing Good Wishes in Gurung and English has been carried out to find out the forms of welcoming, thanking and expressing good wishes in Gurung and to compare and contrast them with those of the English language. The comparison was made on basis of the language forms used for respected people, family members, relatives, strangers, friends, mother, father, elder brother, sister and on the occasion of great festivals. The data were collected from 30 native speakers of Dhaksini Aarthare dialect of Gurung language. The informants were selected using purposive nonrandom sampling procedure from Manakamana VDC of Shyangja district. The data were collected with the help of questionnaire. The sources of data for English were collected from different books, thesis, dictionaries and articles. From the analysis and interpretation of collected data, it has been found that the forms for welcoming in Gurung language are 'mrulaichhyajalo', 'taanvandathebamantrilaichhyajalo', 'mru÷mrusyolaingihyularihylabamo'. Similarly the Gurung native speakers used 'chhyajalobarajyu/ baje' and 'chhyajalo/fyofulaapa÷aamma' to welcome their senior family member. Another finding is forms of thanking in Gurung language are 'āmma/mama kyivanibaprulibamonagyssajemo÷belelibakei chai tiya, mamalailibakeilagirgyasaje'.Similarly major similarities between Gurung and English in the use of language function are both languages have very formal and polite forms of welcoming to use with respected people. Likewise both of them use more formal forms of welcoming to their senior family member in comparison to juniors. Similarly the speakers of both languages use formal forms of welcoming to their unfamiliar friends in comparison to the familiar friends. Similarly the used use formal and polite form to express good wishes to their father who is going for a long journey. Some differences also found when both language native speakers used welcoming, thanking and expressing good wishes. Regarding welcoming to the stranger Gurung native speakers use the different form according to their age but English people usedthe same form with older and similar age. Likewise while expressing thank to their mother Gurung native speakers used the more polite form than English. Similarly while expressing thank to the elder sister English people used less polite than Gurung language.While expressing good wishes on the occasion of birthday and marriage anniversary English people used more formal and polite form than Gurung. Thisstudy has been subsumed in five different chapters. The first chapter is introductions. It includes the background, statements of the problem, objective of the study, research question, significance, delimitation and operational definition of the key terms. Second chapter 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 procedure of the study incorporates 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 forth chapter. The fifth chapter deals with the conclusion 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.Item Person deixis in English and Gurung language(Department of English Education, 2015) Gurung, Bishnu MayaThe present study entitled ‘Person deixis in English and Gurung language’ was a modest attempt made to identify and compare the person Deixis in English and Gurung languages. For this study, I took sample consisting of 40 Gurung speakers of Chhoprak VDC of Gorkha district. The study was based on both primary and secondary data. The interview was conducted to attend required information which served as primary data. However, the secondary sources were also used for collecting data for person deixis. On the basis of analysis and interpretation, I came to the conclusion that Gurung and English languages do not have separate deictical expression to indicate honorific and non- honorific style. Both languages have two kinds of number, singular and plural. Similarly, both languages have separate marker for subjective, objective and genitive cases. Likewise, Gurung first person deictic pronouns are influenced by the tense system but the case is different in English. Similarly, English has separate third person pronouns for male and female whereas Gurung has no separate pronouns for these genders. The study is divided into five chapters. Chapter one is an introducing one. It includes background of the study, statement of the problem, objective of the study, research questions or hypothesis, significance of the study, delimitations of the study and operational definitions of the key terms. Chapter two deals with review of related theoretical literature, review of the empirical literature, implications of the review for the study and conceptual framework. Chapter three includes methods and procedures of the study. Chapter four presents the results and discussion. In this section both statistical as well as descriptive approaches are used. Chapter five incorporates summary, conclusion and implications of the study. The references and appendices form the concluding part of thesis.Item Subject-Verb Agreement in Gurung And English(Department of English Education, 2010) Regmi, Megha NathThe present research entitled 'Subject-Verb Agreement in Gurung and English' aims at finding out the Subject-Verb agreement system of the Gurung language and finding out the similarities and differences in Subject-Verb Agreement Systems in the Gurung and English languages. In order to do so, the researcher collected the data from the S.L.C. graduate native speakers of the Gurung language in three V.D.Cs of Gorkha district. Only thirty sampling units, ten respondents from each V.D.C. were selected. The researcher collected the data by distributing the questionnaire to the respondents. It was found that Gurung and English follow different sentence structures. In other words, Gurung language follows SOV form of sentence pattern whereas English follows SVO form. Both Gurung and English do not have discrimination of the verb on the basis of gender and forms of address. This research study consists of four chapters. Chapter one deals with introduction. It consists of general background, English and its position, present scenario of ELT in Nepal, linguistic situation of Nepal, introduction to the Gurung language, the script of the Gurung language, the present situation of the Gurung language in Nepal, distribution of the Gurung, subject-verb agreement in English, review of the related literature, objectives of the study, significance of the study and definition of the specific terms.Chapter two deals with methodology. It includes sources of data, sampling procedure, tools for data collection, process of data collection and limitations of the study. Chapter three deals with the analysis and interpretation of the data. The collected data were analyzed and interpreted using descriptive approach and simple statistical tools. Chapter four presents the findings and recommendations. Recommendations are made on the basis of findings.