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Item Bishnu Prasad Parajuli a case study of English daily newspapers of Nepal(Bhairahawa Multiple Campus, 2010-08) Bishnu Prasad ParajuliFor the systematic and coordinated efforts to optimize the satisfaction of tourists for sustained growth of tourism there is a great role of mass media, which are the instruments of communication. So, there is always impact of mass media in the tourism marketing. In this regard, the study is basically related to the role of three English daily newspapers of Nepal in tourism marketing. The general objective of the research study is to show and analyze the roles of mass media in tourism marketing. The study is limited in terms of time, data collections and analysis methods and period etc. Similarly, the dissertation is organized into seven chapters. Various literatures are also reviewed to analyze the problems and to suggest the recommendations. Both primary and secondary sources of in formations are used on the basis of descriptive and analytical research design. Judgmental and purposive sampling methods are used for case study and key informants respectively. The quantitative data are presented in the tabular form and analyzed by simple percentage analysis while qualitative data are analyzed on the basis of the descriptive and analytical research design. The study also tries to give a descriptive view of the selected newspapers and their publications about the study topic. On the basis of the research analysis, it is found that only 7.0 percent of the newspapers are dailies and 47.3 percent of total days have zero publication about tourism. Similarly, 53.7 percent of the publications are news and tourism publication constitutes 1.48 percent of the total publication for TRN. The most of the tourism publications are published in business and op. ed page, 42.0 percent of them are in large font and 63.9 percent of them are neither published in boxes nor in colors. The most of the publications are published not as a major one. Around 27.7 percent are promoting and informative publications. Newspapers are regarded as influential, reliable and widely used mass media. Absence of experts, low budget, small market, political instability, foreign poor relations and poor infrastructure development are the major drawbacks regarding study topic. It is also seen that all newspapers are internally correlated. On the basis of the findings, it has been concluded that there is the good positive role of newspapers than the negative ones but not as much as to be in tourism marketing in Nepal. On the basis of the research work, it is recommended that a separate page should be devoted for tourism, the newspapers should play the positive roles, negative and harassing news should be minimized, it should act as an essential element and means of exercising power, the qualitative and quantitative publications and number of newspapers should be increased, pressures should be minimized and inspirations and influencing factors should be maximized, more advertisements should be introduced, the reach and source of newspapers should be maximized, positive roles should be maximized while negative roles should be minimized, there should be the strong commitment among the different organs of the society and at last but not lest, comparative as well as similar studies should be carried out to a greater extent.Item A Critical Discourse Analysis of Political News Stories in English Dailies(Faculty of Education, Tribhuvan University Kirtipur, 2016) Chapagain, HimlalThe present study entitled A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Political News Stories in English Dailieswas an attempt to identify and analyze the formal features of political news stories critically in terms of metaphor, modality and transitivity, to analyze discursive practices and ideological hegemony within political news stories from newspapers and to suggest some pedagogical implications on the basis of three dimensional CDA framework developed by Norman Fairclough (1992). To carry out this analytical descriptive corpus-based study, I purposively selected nine political news stories from three leading English dailies in Nepal viz. The Rising Nepal, The Himalayan Times and The Kathmandu Postby using non-random sampling procedure. The data were collected using observation checklists as the tools of data collection. It is found that the conceptual metaphors are used to highlight the relationship between Nepal and India and to present new government‟s actions positively. Most repeatedly used modal markers show new government‟s confidentiality towards socio-economic development in Nepal as well as rebuilding relationship with India and some high value model markers are used to carry over the positive image of Indian rulers in Nepalese society. Excessive use of material processes shows new government as a real actor who is going to perform better actions for the sake of people. The voices of new government and Indian rulers are quoted most profoundly to highlight the political message vividly and to enhance the people‟s faith on them. The genres and discourses related to economic development and religions are accommodated to gain the emotional support of the people. Political leaders and the news writers have used different discursive practices such as presentation of glorious past and fear of future to control the people ideologically. Political actors like Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal (here after PM Dahal), Deputy Prime Minister BimalendraNidhi (here after DPM Nidhi) and even Indian rulers have shaped the news stories and their nature of production. 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 theoretical literature, implications of the review for the study, and conceptual framework of the research. Chapter three deals with methodology adopted to carry out the research. It consists of design of the study, population, sample and sampling strategy, research tools, sources of data, data collection procedures, and data analysis procedures. 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.Item Language Used in Display Advertisement in the Nepalese English Newspapers(Central Department of Education English, 2012) Upadhayay, Radha KrishnaThe present study entitled "LanguageUsed in Display Advertisement in theNepalese Newspapers"isan attempt to study the type of language used in displayadvertisement. This research is based on data analysis of the newspaper found atCentral library of Tribhuvan University, Kirtipur Kathmandu. The researcherstudied the four types of English Newspaper published in Nepal such as: TheHimalayan Times, Republica, Nepali Times and The Kathmandu Post, in terms ofsentence constructions, tense and aspects, language functions. Collected data forthis study are listed and tabulated in proper order. It is found from this study thatamong four types of sentence constructions used in the study the verb less sentenceconstructions are found highly frequent, regarding the language aspect in English,the simple aspect found mostly in newspaper and study the language functionssuggestion and direction are mostly used in the newspapers. The study is divided in to four chapter, Chapter one introduces the study in termsof general background, review of the related literature, objectives of the study.Chapter two deals with the methodology adopted for the study. It consists ofsources of data, population of the study, sampling procedure, tools for datacollection, process of data collection, and limitations of the study. Chapter threeincludes analysis and interpretation of the data. The collected data were analysedand interpreted descriptively and comparatively using simple statistical tools.Chapter four consists of findings and recommendations where recommendationswere given on the basis of findings.Item Proficiency in Understanding Newspaper headlines A Case of Bachelor Level Students in chitwan District(Faculty English Education, 2007) Bharati, Padam LalThe present study is an attempt to find out the proficiency of the students of Bachelor Level 3 rd year in understanding the headlines of English newspapers in Nepal. The researcher collected the data by using test items and questionnaire, from the students of six colleges in Chitwan district. The data were analysed and results were compared sex wise, faculty wise and on the basis of test items using statistical tools. Student sare found to have medium proficiency in understanding newspaper headlines. Girls are found to be slightly less proficient than boys.Students of institutes are found to be more proficient than the students of faculties. The thesis consists of four chapters. Chapter one introduces the study with general background, literature review, objectives of the study,significance and definitions of the terms.Chapter two deals with methodology which was followed to carry out there search work. It talks about the data sources, population and sample size, tools used for data collection, procedure of data collection and limitations of the study .Chapter three presents the analysis and interpretation of the data. This chapter makes use of statistical tools like tables, charts and percentage.Chapter four draws out some findings on the basis of the analysis made in chapter three. Some suggestions have also been listed on the basis of the findings.References and appendices supplement the concluding part of the thesis.