An Analysis of English Code Mixing in Nepali folk Songs

Abstract

This dissertation is basically a study of English code mixing in Nepali folk songs. It aims to analyze the use of English code in Nepali folk songs. The main objectives of this study are to find out English code mixing in Nepali folk songs and to analyze English code mixing in term of major word class, frequency of occurrences of words and context in which code mixing takes place. The primary sources of this study were 50 listeners, singers and songwriters of Nepali folk songs and the secondary sources of this study were twenty five Nepali folk songs having English code mixing. The researcher used judgemental/purposive-random sampling procedure for collecting data. The finding of this work shows that there is a large amount of English Code mixing in Nepali folk songs. Maximum nouns and verbs are mixed in Nepali folk songs followed by adjectives and adverbs. Regarding contexts, English code mixing in Nepali folk songs was found in urban context than rural. The study consists of four chapters as follows: Chapter One deals with the general background, review of related literature, objectives of the study, significance of the study and the definition of specific terms. Chapter Two deals with the methodology for the study. It includes sources data, population of the study, tools for data collection, process of data collection. Chapter Three deals with the analysis and interpretation of data. The data was analyzed and interpretated using simple statistical tools like frequency and percentage. Chapter four consists of findings and recommendation of the research.