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Item A Comparative Study on Terms of Greeting and Takingleave Used in Tharu and English(Faculty of Education, 2008) Chaudhary, Ram DayalThis researchwork wasan attempt to list out and compare the termsof greetings and taking leave used by the native speakers of Tharu with theEnglish terms of greeting and taking leave. For this purpose the researcherconsulted the people of different VDCs of Kailali district. He used aquestionnaire to collect current data fromselected people (sample population).For the case of English, the researcher used secondary sources available inbooks and theses.The researcher collected the data from Kailali district’s fiveVDCs ofKailalidistrict.The tool for data collection was the questionnaire. Theresearcher used a verysimple statistical tool,(i.e. table)to analyze and interpretthe collected data. The findings of the study show thatthereareavery few terms ofgreetingand taking leave in English in comparison to theTharuLanguage. In English‘hello’,‘hi’,‘good morning/evening/afternoon’arecommon terms of greeting.'Good-bye',‘bye-bye’, ‘see you’ and ‘love you’arecommon terms of takingleave.TheTharu language hasgot a lot of number of terms for greeting andtaking leave. In Tharu,sewä/dhog,räm-räm, sita-räm, dandawat, pränämarethe terms of greeting for seniors and,kasin bato, majai bato,majai bate, jug-jugjeyo, gyanëbanoare the terms for juniors. In the case of taking leave leu toräm-räm, sewa/dhog,are for seniors and le to baith, mai jaitü, achchhäräm-rämare for juniors. Tharu speakersusedifferent types of address termswhile speaking withthe seniors and juniorsbut English speakers use thesame terms to seniors andjuniors. ix The study has been presented in four chapters:The first chapter deals with general background, language functions, introduction to the terms of greeting and taking leave, languagesof Nepal, theTharu language, objectives of the study, significance of the study and literaturereview. The second chapter includes the methodology which consistsofsource ofdata, sample population and sampling procedure, tool for data collection,process ofdata collection andlimitationsof the study. The third chapter deals with analysis, interpretation and presentation ofdata. The data have been analyzed and interpreted descriptively andcomparatively. The last chapter consists of findings and recommendations.Item Greeting and Takingleave Used in Bantawa Rai and English(Faculty of Education, 2018) Rai, GitaThethesis entitled 'Greetingand TakingLeave Used in BantawaRaiandEnglish'attempts to compare and contrast the terms of greeting and taking leave in English andBantawa Rai.Forty-five Bantawa Rai native speakersfrom Balankha, Bhojpurwerethe sample population who were selected using random sampling procedure. The toolsfor collection were the structured interview and questionnaire. The main findings werethatBantawa Rai has more exponents of greeting and taking leave than English. InBantawa,sewā,sewānne,sewāonai,sewā metnāninne,sewā yuṅsunne are the formsof greeting for seniors andālāṅnesewā, nulok yuṅā, detacayāṅdichalo, F.N dichalo for juniors. In the case of taking leave hāsinne, hāsincinne, tupsāmunne, māyāṅtuinne dhissāmunne,yuṅānin for seniors and lāsāṅ, yuṅā, yuṅācā,nulok yunā forjuniors.Butin English 'hi', 'hello', 'good morning' afternoon/evening are commonforms of greeting.andbye, good bye, bye-bye, see you, love you. cheerio are commonforms of taking leaveBantawa speakers used different types ofaddress forms whilespeaking with seniors and juniors but English speakers used the same form to seniorsand juniors.In English different forms are used in different periods of time of a daybut time doesnotplay determining role in choosing from of greeting in Bantawa. The study has been presented in the five chapters. Thefirst chapterdeals withbackground of the study,statementof problems, objectivesof the study,researchquestions,significance of the study,delimitations of the study, operational definitionof the key terms.Second chapter includes review of the theoretical literature, reviewof empirical literature, implication of the review for the study and conceptualframework. The third chapter includes methods and procedureof the study whichconsistsof design and methods of the study, population sample and sampling strategy,data collection tools and data analysis and interpretation procedures.The fourthchapter deals withthe analysisand interpretation of results and summary of finding.The last chapter consists of conclusion and recommendations.