Making, Accepting and Rejecting of fers Inenglish and Nepali

Abstract

The presentthesisentitled ‘Making, Accepting and Rejecting Offers inEnglish and Nepali’ aims at finding outthe exponents used by speakers of twodifferent languages Nepali and English to compare the extent of the use of theexponents in these languages. This isadescriptive research in which thecollected responsesweredescribedand analyzedto see whether they usedrelatively more or less polite or rude/less polite responses when they made,accept or reject any offer or just neutral responses they usedin suchasituation.Eighty students of Master’s level from two campuses of Katmanduvalley were selected for the sample population. The study was entirely basedon primary data i.e.the responses from the Nepaliand Englishspeakersthrough questionnaire distributed to them. The data collected from therespondents were analyzed and interpreted to determine the exponents ofmaking, accepting and rejecting offers in Nepali and English.It was found thatthe English speakers used more formal and polite utterances while making,accepting and rejecting offers in comparison to the Nepaleserespondents.Nepalese people usecomparatively more pronominalwhile making offers.English speakersusedonly ‘you’ as a second person pronoun to address thelisteners, whereas, Nepalese people used‘tan’, ‘timi’, ‘tapai’, ‘hajur’. toaddress the listeners. Regarding the matter of accepting and rejecting offers,English native speakers were found to havevery polite responses. This thesis consists of four chapters. Chapter one is an introductory chapter,which includes the general background,review of the related literatureobjectives of the study and the significance of the study. Chapter two includesthe methodology adopted to carry out the research. Chapter three consists ofthe analysis and interpretation of data. Chapter four consists of the findings andrecommendations of the study.Eventually, references and appendices are alsoattached. The appendix part includes the responses of MARO made in Englishand Nepali languages.