A Comparative Study of English and Awadhi Kinship Terms

Abstract

In the present study, the researcher has presented different kinshiprelations and corresponding terms to symbolize the relations. The mainobjectives of this study were to determine different terms used forEnglish and Awadhi kinship relations and to compare and contrast thoseterms. For this purpose the researcher collected data from AwadhiSpeakers of Rupandehi District of Awadhi kinship terms.The researcheralso collected the data from the native speakers of English language. Soaltogether sample population consists of hundred respondents. Amonghundred respondents, he consulted eighty Awadhi language speakers andtwenty English speakers for the verification of the kinship used in bothlanguage. To obtain required data, they were interviewed by taking helpof pre-determined set of questionnaires using snowball-non-randomsampling procedure.Hefurtherconsulted secondary sources like books,magazines, and theses and Internet related to his topic. The main objectives of this study were to determine different termsused for English and Awadhi kinship relations and to compare andcontrast those terms. The major findings are that Awadhi language is richin terms of kinship terms in comparison to the English language. And thesystems of Awadhi kinship terms and English terms have therelationships of Mono-Awadhi Vs. Multi EnglishandMono-EnglishVs. Awadhi. In addition to this, there is a slight difference betweenOne-to-one correspondence relationshipsof the appellative forms to signifythe same relation of the given languages. The study consists of four chapters. Each chapter, in turn has beendivided into various sub-chapters.Chapter one consists of introduction with general background,review of the related literature, objectives of the study, significance of thestudy and the definition of the technical terms. Chapter two deals with methodology of research work. It is sub-divided into sources of data, sample population and sampling procedure,research tools, process of data collection and limitations of the study. Chapter three consists of analysis and interpretation of the data.Chapter four is the findings, recommendations and pedagogical implications.