A Comparative Study of Household Terms Used in Tharu and English Languages

Abstract

The present thesis entitled A Comparative Study of Household Terms Used in Tharu and English languages identify the household terms used in Tharu and compare them with the term of use in English,convergence and divergence. I collected data from both primary and secondary sources. The sample size of the study consisted 40 Tharu native speakers to whom the questionnaires were distributed. I consulted the standard Tharu, Nepali and English dictionaries they are mid-eastern Tharu Nepali dictionary, nepali English dictionary, advanced oxford dictionary to collect the data from Tharu, Nepali and English. The data were analyzed in terms of convergence and divergence. The major findings of this study are: The Tharu language is richer in its variation in comparison to English because most of the Tharu household terms are realized differently due to person to person. The English language has the less member of household terms in comparison to Tharu language, because English has many neutral terms to refer household terms. The study consists of five chapters. Chapter one deals with introduction. It consists of general background statement of the problem, objectives of the study, research questions, significance and delimitation of the study and operational definition of the key terms. Chapter two deals with review of related literature and conceptual framework. It includes review of theoretical literature and Empirical literature.It also includes implications of the review for the study and conceptual framework. Chapter three deals with methods and procedures of the study i.e how the research was carried out under which design of the study, population and sample, sampling procedure, data collection tools, data collection procedures, analysis and interpretation procedure is mentioned. The forth chapter involves the results and discussion of the study. Finally, the fifth chapter includes the conclusions and recommendations at three different areas policy related, practice related and further related. Finally, the references and appendices are included.