Code Mixing In Ghurmi: A Linguistic Study

Abstract

This research study entitled,"English Code-mixing in Ghurmi:A Linguistic Study”,is a study of English code-mixing in the Nepali novel ‘Ghurmi’ written by Dr. Dhruba Chandra Gautam. Its aim centralizes to the analyses in to the use of English code in the novel ‘Ghurmi’. It aims to find out and analyze English code- mixing in terms of major word classes, frequency of occurrence of the word and context in which code-mixing takes place and find out the attitude of literary writers and readers towards English code-mixing in the Nepali novel. The primary sources of the data of this study were 20 literary writers and 20 literary readers from Sunsari and Morang districts. The researchers used judgmental/purposive sampling procedure for the collection of data. The finding of this work shows that there is a large amount of English code mixing in the novel ‘Ghurmi’. Nouns were maximally used followed by adjective, verb and adverb. Regarding the context of code mixing, the writer was seen to have mixed English words on such context as: talking about film, education, profession and post, science and technology, hotel and food, modern equipment, dress etc. The study entails four chapters. The first chapter deals with introduction which, in turn, consists of general background, review of related literature, objectives and significance of the study. The second chapter deals with methodology. It incorporates sources of data, population of the study, tools for data collection and limitation of the study. The third chapter includes analyses and interpretation of the data using such simple statistical tools such as frequency and percentage. Chapter four consists of findings and recommendations of the research study.