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Item A Descriptive Studyon Language Used in Cinema News in English Newspaper(Faculty of Education, 2008) Giri, KamalaThe present thesis entitled “A Descriptive Study on Language Used in CinemaNews in English Newspaper” aims to find out the use ofsentence type, tense,aspect, voice and narration inthreenewspapers viz.TheCity Post,The Timesof India andThe New York Times.The researcher appliedthe judgmentalsampling procedure to select these newspapers. The datahave beencollectedfromJune 15 to 31, 2008 i.e.45 issues of cinema news, 15 from each of thenewspapers.The study presents the descriptive analysis of the mentionedcharacteristicsofthelanguage used in cinema news.Itwasfound that therewas not significant difference among the language of TCP, TTI and TNYT.The general difference wasseen in itssimplicity.Complex sentences werefound maximally usedin all the newspaperscovering more than half i.e.53.53% of the total sentences.In all the newspapers,Non-past tenseandsimpleaspect wasused highly covering63.41%and85.38%respectively.Activevoiceandindirect narration werein majority in cinema news covering 93.42%and75.90%ofthe total sentencesrespectively. Thethesis consists of four chapters. Chapter one is an introductory chapter. Itincludes general background,review of the related literature,objectives of thestudy,significance of the study anddefinition of the specific terms.Chaptertwodeals withthe methodology adopted to carry out the researchunder whichsources of data,sampling procedure,tools for data collection, process of datacollectionand limitations of the study are presented.Chapter threepresentsanalysis and interpretation of the data.In this section both statistical as well asdescriptiveapproach has been used.Chapter fourincorporatesfindingsandrecommendations of the research. The references and appendices form theconcluding part of the thesis.Item Dissolution of the House of Representatives, 2020: Politics of Representation in the State-Owned English Broadsheet The Rising Nepal(Department of English, 2021) Rimal, Dharma PrasadThis research divulges the politics of the state-owned English broadsheet, The Rising Nepal, in the representation of the dissolution of the House of Representatives, 2020, within the discursive parameter, and its constructive role in the ideological construction. The broadsheet has manipulated the capital—literal and symbolic, and, played a constructive role in ideological construction by working in positive or productive ways to generate, sustain and perpetuate discursive regime of representation and providing it with a representational legitimacy to serve the government’s ideology. The study analyzes the language and visual in The Rising Nepal: news stories, headlines, word choice, visual depiction and page layout on the front pages, and the editorial arguments concerning the discourse; taking the equivalent elements from the privately run newspaper The Kathmandu Post as a foil. Employing cultural theory of representation (constructionist approach), the study, for the textual analysis, mainly falls back upon James Paul Gee’s concept on “seven building tasks of language” and the “Discourses” tool of inquiry. Likewise, for the analysis of visual grammar, it has resorted to Gunther Kress and Theo van Leeuwen’s Visual Social Semiotics, especially the tools related to the three layers of visual meanings : representational, interactive and compositional. The study, finally, aims to create critical language awareness, to make the readers/viewers able to read between the lines and to see the “unseen,” to surface the underlying and to divulge the hidden while dealing with media discourse.Item Language Used in Advertisements(Faculty of Education, 2014) Bhatt, Tara DattThis research is anattemptto analyze and describe the language used inadvertisements. This research is descriptive in nature which is based ononly the secondary sources of data. The data for the study werejudgmentally collected from the newspapers published in Nepal. The totalsample populations of the study consisted of hundred texts. The requireddata was collected using observation as the data collection tool. Thedescriptivestatistical tools were used to analyze the data.This studyfound that rhetoricaland figurative language wasmaximally used tomake the advertisement persuasive. In the case of tense, the non-pasttense was more frequently used than the past tense. In the same way,passive voice was maximally used thanactive voice. The whole thesis is divided into five chapters. Chapter one deals with thebackground of the study, statement of the problem, rational of the study,objectives of the study, significance, delimitations and operationaldefinition of key terms. Second chapter deals with the review of therelated literature and conceptual framework. Chapter three includes thevital elements of the research study, i.e. methodology which was adoptedto conduct the whole study. It contains the design of the study,sources ofthe data, sample size, tools for data collection, data collection procedureand of analysis and interpretationof the data. The resultshavebeendiscussed in chapter four and in the last chapter the whole study has beensummarized and concluded along with the implications.Item Language Used in Newspaper Interviews(Department of English Education, 2009) Aryal, PuspaThe present study entitled 'Language Used in Newspapers Interviews' is an attempt to find out the kind of language and its characteristics used in the interviews in terms of question types, sentence types, tense, voice and aspect. The study sought to find out whether the language used in interviews was different from the language used in other fields. Since the research work is a library based one, the data for this study which are the samples of interviews were collected from three different daily newspapers namely, The Kathmandu Post, The Rising Nepal and The Himalayan Times. Thirty interviews, ten from each were selected from the newspapers understudy. The required data were collected by using checklist as the main tool and arranged systematically under different headings. The main findings of this research show that the open ended questions, complex sentences, active voice and non-past tense were found to be maximally used in interviews of all three English newspapers published from Nepal. This research consists of four chapters. The first chapter deals with general background of the study, mass media and its significance, mass media and its impact in Nepal, media and language, print media, newspaper and introduction to interview, types of interview, principle of interview, review of the related literature, objectives, significance and definition of the terms of the study. Chapter two deals with the methodology adopted for the completion of the study, tools for data collection, process of data collection and limitations of the study. Similarly, chapter three deals with the analysis and interpretation of the collected data for the study from different newspapers using simple statistical tools like average and percentage. Chapter four presents the findings and some recommendations based on the analysis and interpretation of the collected data. At the end references and appendices have been included.Item Reading Comprehension of English Newspaper Articles(Department of English Education, 2009) Karki, Dambar BahadurThe present thesis entitled "Reading Comprehension of English Newspaper Articles" aimed at finding out the reading habit and reading comprehension ability of 10+2 level students of both government-aided and private higher secondary schools. In order to do so, the researcher collected the data from 11 and 12 grade students studying in government-aided and private schools in Kathmandu. The researcher used non-random purposive sampling procedure to study government-aided schools' students and random sampling method for private schools' students. The researcher compared the reading comprehension ability of the students Streamwise. The main findings of the present research are that the reading comprehension ability of the private school students was better than government-aided school students and the boys were found better than the girls in reading comprehension. Similarly, the newspaper reading habit of private school students was found higher than the government-aided school students. It is recommended that the government-aided schools' students need to be encouraged to read newspaper articles and to manage the English newspapers in library rooms. It is also recommended that the students should be encouraged to cultivate the habit of reading newspapers. This study is divided in four main chapters and some sub-chapters. The first chapter consists of general background, review of the related literature and the objectives of the study and the definitions of the specific terms. The second chapter deals with methodology. It encompasses sources of data, population of the study, sample population, tools for data collection, and the limitations of the study. The third chapter consists of analysis and interpretation of the data. The data is analyzed and interpreted in terms of boys vs. girls, government-aided school vs. private school using the simple statistical tools, mean and percentage. The fourth chapter incorporates findings and recommendations on the basis of the analysed data.Item The Stylistic Features of Newspaper Headlines(Faculty of Education Tribhuvan University, Kirtipur Kathmandu, Nepa, 2017) Lamichhane, ManishaThe present study entitled The Stylistic Features of Newspaper Headlines: A Case of English Dailieswas carried out to identify and analyze the stylistic features of newspaper headlines in terms of lexical, rhetorical and syntactic features. This research is qualitative and quantitative in nature which is based on only the secondary data. The data for the study have been collected through observation checklists. I used non-random sampling procedure to select headlines of English dailies that is twenty from The Himalayan Times (here after THT) and twenty from The Kathmandu Post (here after TKP). The descriptive and simple statistical tools were used to analyze the data. This study found that proper nouns are the highest and abbreviations are the second highest lexical features used in the headlines. In the same way,most of the rhetorical features used in the headlines are alliteration and metaphor in which alliteration is the highest and metaphor is the second highest rhetorical features used in newspaper headlines. Analysis of syntactic features shows that simple sentences are the highest numbers of syntactic features and phrases cover second highest features of the total syntactic features in the analysis of headlines. This thesis is divided into five chapters. Every chapter consists of necessary headings and sub-headings. Chapter one introduces background of the study, statement of the problem, objectives of the study, research questions, significance of the study, delimitations of the study and operational definitions of the key terms. Chapter two consists of review of related literature and conceptual framework includes the review of related theoretical and empirical literature, implications of the study, and conceptual framework of the research. Chapter three deals with methods and procedures of the study which includes design of the study, population, sample and sampling strategy, research tools, sources of data, data collection procedures, data analysis procedures, andethical considerations. Chapter four consists of analysis of data and interpretation of results. Findings, conclusion and recommendations are presented in chapter five. The final part of the study consists of references and appendices.