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Item Code-Mixing in The Kantipur Daily: A Descriptive Study(Department of education, 2008) Poudel, GyanendraIn this research, the researcher has made an effort to describe and analyze theEnglishcode mixed in the Kantipur Daily in terms of word class, sentence types andnews types.Only secondary sources of data were used for the research.The sampledpopulation of the research were the ten regular issues of the Kantipur Daily from 1 ofAshwin to the 10 th of Ashwin 2063. The researcher used the technique of judgmentalor purposive non-random sampling. He collected the data by using the observationsheets as research tool. Then simple statistical tools like frequency and percentagewere used to describe and analyze the data. This study found out that Code-mixing in the Kantipur Daily is a natural andregular phenomenon. Regarding the word class, nouns were maximally used followedby adjectives, verbs and adverbs respectively. Regarding news type, the sports newscontained the greatest number of mixed English words. No any sentences were foundto be mixed. The study found out that the use of abbreviated words was alsoremarkable. This study is composed of fourchapters. Every chapter consists necessaryheadings and sub-headings. The first chapter is 'Introduction'. It consists of generalbackground, an overview of code-switching and code-mixing, factors leading to code-switching, introduction to journalism, history of journalism, and introduction to theKantipur Daily, classification of news in the Kantipur Daily, fundamentals oflanguage structure, word and its classes, word formation process, review of relatedliterature, objectives of the study, significance of the study and definition of specificterms. Chapter two consists of the methodology used to carry out the research. Underthis, sources of data, sampling procedure, tools for data collection, process of datacollection and limitation of the study are incorporated. Chapter three describes and analyzes the data. The data are analyzed anddescribed by using the statistical tools like tables, frequency, percentage etc. The fourth chapter incorporates the findings, pedagogical implications and recommendations of the study. The references and appendices are also included at the end.Item English Code-Mixing in Saptakoshi Fm: A Case of Request Time(Faculty of English Education, 2011) Khanal, RishiramThis dissertation is primarily a study of English code-mixing in Saptakoshi FM in Itahari. The main objectives of the research study were to find out and analyze English code-mixing in terms of major word classes, frequency of occurrence of the words, contexts in which code-mixing takes place and, find out reasons for English code-mixing. The primary sources of data for this study were 12 radio prorammes of Request Time broadcast from the FM station as well as the 25 radio announcers and 25 radio listeners of the FM radio. The researcher used judgmental or purposive nonrandom sampling procedure for the collection of data. The findings of the research work shows that there is maximum amount of English code-mixing in the programme. It was found out that programme announcers mixed higher amount of English words than the audience. It was also found out that nouns were in the first position, adjectives in the second position, verbs in the third and adverbs were in the last position regarding the number and percentage of the English words mixed. Regarding the context of code-mixing, the announcers and listeners mixed English words in such context as greeting, expressing gratitude, answering telephone call, agreeing, changing the topic of discussion, consoling, requesting, offering, dedicating the songs etc. in the programme. The study extends to four chapters. Chapter one deals with general background, review of related literature, objectives of the study, significant of the study and definitions of specific terms. Chapter two deals with the methodology for study including sources of data, population of the study, tools for data collection and process of data collection. Chapter three includes the analysis and interpretation of data using such simple statistical tools as frequency and percentage. Chapter four consists of findings and recommendations of the research study