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Item An Analysis of English Code Mixing In Nepali Film Songs(Faculty of Education Tribhuvan University Kirtipur, Kathmandu, Nepal, 2012) Chhetri, GopiThis research work entitled “An Analysis of English Code Mixing in Nepali Film Songs” was carried out to find out the English code mixing in Nepali film songs and context and reasons for English code mixing in Nepali film songs. In order to collect the data, secondary sources were used. The secondary data were collected from different F.M. radio stations from Kathmandu and Butwal. I transcribed 120 Nepali film songs from which I selected 20 songs for the analysis. The findings of the study showed that out of 5722 codes 341 codes were mixed in Nepali film songs which occupied 5.95% of the total codes. It is also found that from total 341 codes, nouns have occupied the greater percentage i.e. 65.98%. Likewise, verbs have occupied 6.45%, prepositions 2.34%, adjectives 17.30%, and exclamations 7.91%. While analyzing the sentence level code mixing, I found only 7 English sentences out of 33 sentences in the Nepali film songs. The study concluded that the popularity of English language as the major reason of English code mixing in Nepali film songs. The study also found that English codes have occurred in different situations i.e. in order to persuade, to make others happy, to establish relationship, while greeting and to describe or praise others. This thesis has been divided into four chapters. The first chapter consists of the introduction of the study. This chapter consists of general background, review of the related literature and objectives and significance of the study. The second chapter deals with the methodology, sources of data, sampling procedure and limitations of the study. Similarly, the third chapter presents the analysis and interpretation of the data collected by the researcher. Finally, the fourth chapter includes the findings and recommendations on the basis of analysis and interpretation of the collected data. References and the appendices have been presented at the end of the research.Item Code-mixing in nepali film songs(Department of English Education, 2009) Devkota, KabitaThe research aims to analyze the use of English language in Nepali Film Songs. This research focuses on major word class, sentence types, language functions and context in which code mixing takes place. In order to carryout this work, the researcher obtained data from Kantipur F.M., Nepal F.M. and different music companies. The secondary sources of this study were twenty five Nepali film songs released for public since 2042 B.S. to 2065 B.S. The researcher used judgmental/purposive non-random sampling pordedure to collect the data. The researcher made use of check lists and CD player as research tools. He listened to the sampled songs and jotted down the instances of code mixing according to check lists. For confirmation, he listened to the sampled songs time and again. He jotted down the essential information in his note book too. The findings of this work show that the mixing of English code in Nepali film songs is a natural phenomenon. Maximum nouns and verbs are mixed in Nepali film songs followed by adverbs and adjectives the words that are used in sampled Nepali film songs are simple and commonly used in day-to-day communication. Likewise, simple sentences are maximally used than compound and complex sentences in Nepali film songs. The functions like: warning, ordering, requesting, scolding, etc. are used maximally than other functions. Regarding the contexts, English code mixing takes place while talking about education, while expressing love, at the time of meeting, introducing and apologizing etc. This research work has four chapters. Chapter one deals with the general background, review of related literature, objectives of the study, the significance of the study and the definition of specific terms. Chapter two presents the methodology, sources of data, population of the study, sampling procedure, tools for data collection, process of data collection and limitations of the study. Chapter three consists of analysis and interpretation of data. The data was analyzed and interpreted using simple statistical tools like frequency and percentage. Chapter four consists of the findings and recommendation of the research.