Bantawaand English Pronominals: A Comparative Linguistic Study

Abstract

The present thesis entitled “Bantawa and English Pronominals: A Linguistic Comparative Study” is different from a course book or any document. It is a practical course of M. Ed. English, always carried out on the basis of the rules,regulations and format of the Department of English Education, Tribhuvan University, Kirtipur, in Partial Fulfillment for the Master of Education in English. To be more specific, I have tried to collect the pronominals used in Northern Bantawa (also called Dilpali Bantawa) dialect which was the main objective of this study. Northern Bantawa dialect is spoken mainly in Annapurna, Chhinamakhu and Nagi VDCs of Bhojpur district. Therefore, the necessary data for this research had been elicited from these above mentioned three villages, whereby 30 Bantawa speakers were selected by using snowball sampling under judgmental sampling procedure. This is the invention or creation of a new word, and a start point of language development. The task of data collection for this research work was targeted to take from the laymen because I’d believed that they have the exact pronunciation. But, it was found that some of them had lack of knowledge about new vocabularies e.g. to say the English words ‘book’, ‘school’, ‘pen’, etc. in the Bantawa language. Since the nature of the title of the research is on the basis of linguistic comparative study, it has tried to introduce altogether 54 pronominals of the Northern Bantawa dialect and compared them with that of English basing on their varied accents and sounds as well, and pointed out the similarities and differences between the pronominal systems or functions. They have been compared with that of English by analyzing with help of figures and tables. I have divided this thesis into four chapters: Introduction, Methodology,Analysis and Interpretation, and Findings and Recommendations. The first chapter has been dealt with the general background, literature review,objectives and the rationale of the study. The second chapter contains the methodology which is sub-chaptered as the sources of data, sampling procedure and tools for data collection, process of data collection and limitations of the study. The third chapter includes the analysis and interpretation of the data elicited from the field. To deal with third chapter, the necessary tables and illustrations are also included numerically. The last, fourth chapter has the findings and recommendations of the study in which some pedagogical implications also have been recommended.