Language Used in Business News

Abstract

The present study entitled “Language Used in Business News” is an attempt to find out the kind of language and its characteristics used in the business news in terms of sentence types, tense, voice, aspect, word class and special vocabulary items. The study sought to find out whether the language used in business field was different from the language used in other fields. Since the research work is a library based one, the data for this study, which are the samples of business news stories were collected from three different daily newspapers, namely ‘The Rising Nepal’, ‘The Kathmandu Post', and ‘The Himalayan Times’ respectively. Eighty-four business stories were selected from the aforementioned newspapers. Twenty-eight business news stories were selected from each newspaper. The required data were collected by using checklist as the main tool for data collection and arranged systematically under different headings. The main finding of this research showed that complex sentence, active voice, past tense, simple aspect were found to be maximally used in the business news stories of all three English newspapers published from Nepal. Similarly, major word class especially noun was found to be highly used in the business news stories of aforementioned newspapers. This research consists of four chapters. The first chapter deals with general background of the study, an introduction to linguistics, an introduction to varieties of linguistic codes, mass media and its significance, mass media and its impact in Nepal, media and language, print media, newspaper, news , an introduction to business news, review of the related literature, objectives ,significance and definition of the terms of the study. Chapter two deals with the methodology adopted for the completion of the study, tools for data collection, process of data collection and limitations of the study. Similarly, chapter three deals with the analysis and interpretation of the collected data for the study from different newspapers using simple statistical tools like average and percentage. Chapter four presents the findings and some recommendations based on the analysis and interpretation of the collected data. At the end references and appendixes have been included.