Greeting and Takingleave Used in Bantawa Rai and English

Abstract

Thethesis entitled 'Greetingand TakingLeave Used in BantawaRaiandEnglish'attempts to compare and contrast the terms of greeting and taking leave in English andBantawa Rai.Forty-five Bantawa Rai native speakersfrom Balankha, Bhojpurwerethe sample population who were selected using random sampling procedure. The toolsfor collection were the structured interview and questionnaire. The main findings werethatBantawa Rai has more exponents of greeting and taking leave than English. InBantawa,sewā,sewānne,sewāonai,sewā metnāninne,sewā yuṅsunne are the formsof greeting for seniors andālāṅnesewā, nulok yuṅā, detacayāṅdichalo, F.N dichalo for juniors. In the case of taking leave hāsinne, hāsincinne, tupsāmunne, māyāṅtuinne dhissāmunne,yuṅānin for seniors and lāsāṅ, yuṅā, yuṅācā,nulok yunā forjuniors.Butin English 'hi', 'hello', 'good morning' afternoon/evening are commonforms of greeting.andbye, good bye, bye-bye, see you, love you. cheerio are commonforms of taking leaveBantawa speakers used different types ofaddress forms whilespeaking with seniors and juniors but English speakers used the same form to seniorsand juniors.In English different forms are used in different periods of time of a daybut time doesnotplay determining role in choosing from of greeting in Bantawa. The study has been presented in the five chapters. Thefirst chapterdeals withbackground of the study,statementof problems, objectivesof the study,researchquestions,significance of the study,delimitations of the study, operational definitionof the key terms.Second chapter includes review of the theoretical literature, reviewof empirical literature, implication of the review for the study and conceptualframework. The third chapter includes methods and procedureof the study whichconsistsof design and methods of the study, population sample and sampling strategy,data collection tools and data analysis and interpretation procedures.The fourthchapter deals withthe analysisand interpretation of results and summary of finding.The last chapter consists of conclusion and recommendations.