Code Mixing In Ghurmi: A Linguistic Study
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Faculty of English Education
Abstract
This research study entitled,"English Code-mixing in Ghurmi:A Linguistic
Study”,is a study of English code-mixing in the Nepali novel ‘Ghurmi’ written by
Dr. Dhruba Chandra Gautam. Its aim centralizes to the analyses in to the use of
English code in the novel ‘Ghurmi’. It aims to find out and analyze English code-
mixing in terms of major word classes, frequency of occurrence of the word and
context in which code-mixing takes place and find out the attitude of literary writers
and readers towards English code-mixing in the Nepali novel. The primary sources of
the data of this study were 20 literary writers and 20 literary readers from Sunsari and
Morang districts. The researchers used judgmental/purposive sampling procedure for
the collection of data. The finding of this work shows that there is a large amount of
English code mixing in the novel ‘Ghurmi’. Nouns were maximally used followed by
adjective, verb and adverb. Regarding the context of code mixing, the writer was seen
to have mixed English words on such context as: talking about film, education,
profession and post, science and technology, hotel and food, modern equipment, dress
etc.
The study entails four chapters. The first chapter deals with introduction which, in
turn, consists of general background, review of related literature, objectives and
significance of the study. The second chapter deals with methodology. It incorporates
sources of data, population of the study, tools for data collection and limitation of the
study. The third chapter includes analyses and interpretation of the data using such
simple statistical tools such as frequency and percentage. Chapter four consists of
findings and recommendations of the research study.