Making, accepting and declining offers in Magar and English

Abstract

This research entitled ‘Making, accepting and declining offers in Magar and English’ has attempted to identify the forms of making, accepting and declining offers used by Magar native speakers and to compare them with the forms used by English native speakers on the basis of formality level. Both primary and secondary sources of data had been utilized. The Magar native speakers were sampling population for primary sources of data while previously conducted research and some authentic books such as Blundell et al. (1982), Matreyek (1983) were the secondary source of data. The samples were selected through snow-ball sampling procedure and they were provided questionnaires. This research found out that the Magar native speakers preferred to use informal and neutral exponents for making, accepting and declining offers in comparison to the English native speakers. This thesis consists of four chapters. The first chapter deals with general background and review of related literature. The second chapter includes methodology which was put into practice while collecting data. It includes sources of data, sampling procedure, tool and process of data collection and limitations of the study. The third chapter includes the analysis and interpretation of collected data. Based on those analysed and interpreted data, some findings and recommendations are provided in the fourth chapter. Additional information is placed in appendices at last.