Request Forms in English and Magar Languages

Abstract

This thesis entiled " Request Forms in English and Magar Languages " was an attempt to find out the request form in the Magar Language and compare and contrast them with those of English. The researcher used both primary and secondary sources of data. The sample population of the study consisted of 40 informants. Among them 20 were educated and equal number of uneducated informants were there. The researcher used stratified random sampling procedure to sample the population. The interview schedule for uneducated and written questionnaire for educated were the research tools for the data collection. On the basis of the collected data the analysis and interpretation were done descriptively and comparatively with the help of tables, diagrams and illustration. The findings showed that Magar native speakers were less polite than English information. The study has been presented in four chapters: Introduction, Methodology, Analysis and Interpretation and Findings and Recommendations. The first chapter consists of general background, linguistic scenario of Nepal. Magar Language and its origin, Magar scripts, Magar population and their locality, English: A brief introduction and its position in Nepal, language functions, importance of requesting in language, need and importance of Contrastive Analysis (CA), the request forms in Magar language, review of related literature, objectives of the study, significance of the study and definition of terms. The second chapters describes the methodology applied to carry out this research, it consists of primary sources of data, secondary sources of data, sampling procedures, tools used for collecting data, process of data collection and limitations of the study. The third chapter consists of analysis and interpretation of data in terms of the relationship, forms of requests and sex-wise comparison among the informants. The fourth chapter presents the findings derived from the analysis and interpretation of data. It also consists of recommendation to the teachers, students and learners of English and Magar as second languages. In the final section of the study the references and appendixes are included.