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Item Language Used in Condolences(Faculty of Education, 2008) Pandey, Laxman PrasadThis research attempts to study linguistic as well as special features of language used in the notices of condolence in the newspapers fromNepal and India. Notices of condolence have been analyzed in terms oflinguistic and non-linguistic features in the present study. It aims toanalyse the type of language in terms of differentcriteria such as sentencetype, aspect, voice and length; to analyse the non linguistic features; andto analyse special features of language. Altogether 70 NOCs taken from the newspapers from Nepal andIndia namelyThe Kathmandu Post, The HimalayanTimes, The Times ofIndiaand Hindustan Timeswere the major sources of data. Non-randomjudgmental sampling was used to collect the data. The researcher usedonly secondary sources of data. Observation was the major tool of datacollection. The researcher found that the use of simple sentences, non pasttense, simple aspect and active voice were mostly used. He found 63.8words as an average number of words and 2.7 sentences as an averagenumber of sentences. Moreover, he found that use of some pictures(hands offering flower, enclosed within flower etc.), various size, varietyin the place of date used were common. Furthermore, the researcher alsofound both direct and indirect ways of addressing, variety in the use oftitle, both prosaic and poetic form andsome collocation (eternal peace,bereaved family etc.) of words in the notice of condolence. The thesis consists of four chapters. Chapter one is introductionand consists of general background, literature review, objective of the ix study, significance of the study and definition of the terms used in thethesis. Chapter two deals with the methodology applied to conduct aresearch. The chapter consists of sources of data, sampling procedure,tools of data collection and limitations of the study. Chapter three consists of the analysis and interpretation of the data.The data collected through the observation table (checklist) wereanalyzed and interpreted in this chapter. This chapter also includes somestatistical tools like percent, average, etc. Chapter four deals with findings and recommendations. Referencesand appendices have been included in the final section of the thesis.Item Language Used in Posters(Department of English Education, 2008) Dhakal, Ishwari PrasadThe main purpose of the thesis entitled "Language Used in Posters" was todescribe and analyze the characteristic features of posters from linguistic pointof view. This thesis presents the detailed description of the linguistic aspect ofthe language in terms of the tense, aspect, voice and sentence structure. Thedata for the research were collected from different categories of posters such asacademic event and commercial posters available in the Kathmandu valley.The total sample population of the study consists of 100 posters and alltogether 239 sentences. The main tool that the researcher made use of wasobservation. The findingsof the study show that the simple sentences and non-past tenseused maximally rather than other types. This study is very much useful forthose who are involved in teaching and learning mass media. This thesis comprises four chapters. Chapter one introduces the study in termsof general background with its short history. It also includes the review of therelated literature, objectives of the study, significance of the study and thedefinition of the specific terms. Chapter two deals with the sources of data, sampling procedures, tools for thedata collection, process of data collection and limitation of the study. Chapter three presents the analysis and interpretation of the data. In this section both statistical tools and descriptive approaches have been adopted. Chapter four deals with the findings and recommendation of the study. The findings have been outlined on the basis of the data and appropriate recommendations and pedagogical implications have been made. TheReferences and appendices form the concluding part of the thesis.Item Post-Colonial Resistance in the form of Decolonized English Language in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things(Central Department of English Kirtipur, Kathmandu, 2009-03) Paneru, Dipak PrasadThis paper explores the linguistic situation of the once-colonized country. In the post- colonial and post-independent condition, the language of colonizer, the English language, has been seized and the centrality occupied by the English language has been subverted. It is no more than a dialect as that of the periphery. The linguistic position of the English language is associated with native context where the interlinguistic situation is created in the post-colonial condition. In such act, the rules and the norms of the „Standard English‟ are rather subverted as an act of decolonization, adapting the very language so as to strike the colonizer back. This is what this paper seeks to observe in The God of Small Things. This paper examines the linguistic situation of the once colonized country, India, how Arundhati Roy breaks the „Standard‟ notion of the English language in the post- colonial condition as the form of resistance, along with the emphasis on nativism for the provocation of native cultural and linguistic practices in their own context. This becomes a strategy to subvert the colonial centrality in the post-colonial condition. Along with this, it also seeks how Roy breaks the rules and norms of the English language asserting her own way of the linguistic usage that is what becomes her linguistic inventiveness.Item Proficiency of Twelfth Grade Students in the Use of Affixation(Faculty of Education, 2011) Timilsina, Bharat PrasadAffixation, the main part of morphology is such an organ that, in the absence of which a language learner fails to get good command of language. Therefore, one should be equipped with adequate knowledge of morphology. Keeping this view in mind, I determined to investigate the proficiency of +2 level students in English affixation. For this, I collected eighty root words randomly from the course book of grade 12, i.e. Meaning into Words and Heritage of Words. I classified those words into prefixes and suffixes and prepared eight different sets of questions, including 36 word forms with prefixes and 44 word forms with suffixes. The full marks of whole test were 80 carrying 1 mark for each question. The proficiency of students was measured using various linguistic variables such as suffix, prefix and question types. The major finding of this research is that the students' proficiency in English affixation was found satisfactory. The students' performance in suffixes was found less then in prefixes. For this, the collected data were analyzed and interpreted using descriptive approach and simple statistical tools as percentage, rank and level. This thesis consists of four chapters altogether. Chapter one is an introductory chapter which deals with the background information for the study of the topic. It states necessary rhetorical background, justifies the significance of the study, presents objectives, limitations of the study and definitions of key terms. Similarly, chapter two states the methodology followed in the study, it deals with sources of data, population and sampling procedure, process of data collection and limitations of the study. Chapter three entails analysis and interpretation of the data. It deals with analysis and interpretation of collected data using descriptive approach and simple statistical tools; percentage and rank. The analysis has been done under different headings. Finally, chapter our deals with the findings and recommendation made in light of analysis and interpretation. It shows that the students are more proficient in using prefixes than suffixes. The students were found better in those word forms which were presented in linguistic situation. It also includes recommendations from the perspective of pedagogical significance.