A Comparative Study on English and Magar Kinship Terms

Abstract

This research work is related to the kinship terms of theEnglish and Magarlanguages. It is a comparative study of kinship relations of these languages. It studiesboth consaguineal and affinal relations from the point of view of male and female egoin theEnglish andMagar languages. The objectives of this study were to determinevarious kinship terms used to signify English and Magar kinship relations and tocompare and contrast them. A set of questionnaire was prepared for data collection. Population of thestudy consisted of 60people. In sampling population, 30 people were taken fromMasrangi Tole and Purbachane Tole and 30people fromthe Asthani Danda for Magarkinship terms. Among the total sampling population, 20 people were the secondarylevel students. Altogether60native speakersof Magar were taken as respondentsfordata collection. Besides, Katuwal's and Joshi's Thesis and Dictionary have beenconsulted for English kinship terms. The findings are that Magar language is richer than English in Kinship terms,Magar and English kinship terms have the relationship of mono Magar vs multiEnglish and mono English vs multi Magar. This study hasfour chapters. Each of them has been divided into various sub-chapters. The first chapter consists of introduction with general background, reviews ofthe related literature, objectives of the study, significance of the study and definitionof the specificterms. The second chapter includes methodology. It is sub divided into sources ofdata, sampling population and sampling procedure, research tools, process of datacollection and limitation of the study. The third chapter deals with analysis and interpretation of data. The fourth chapter comprises findings, recommendations and pedagogicalimplications.