English and Rajbansi Kinship Terms
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Faculty of English Education
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The thesis entitled “English and Rajbansi Kinship Terms” is the vivid picture of a
comparative study between English and Rajbansi kinship terms. The study aims to
find out the Rajbansi kinship terms and to compare and contrast them with those of
English. Kinship terms of both languages have been presented through
consanguineal and affinal relations from the point of view of male and female ego
and it also includes appellative and addressive uses of kinship relations. The data
of Rajbansi Kinship terms were collected from forty native speakers of the
Rajbansi language who were randomly selected from two VDCs. Twenty native
speakers from each VDC were divided into different strata, using the stratified
random sampling procedure. Structured interview and mobile phone recorder were
used as research tools to collect data. It was found that there are more kinship
terms in the Rajbansi language than that of English. It was also found that some
kinship cover terms are available in the English language such as ‛grand parents’,
‛sibling’, ‛parents’, ‛cousin’, ‛offspring/child’ and ‛grandchild’ but they lack in the
Rajbansi language.
This thesis contains four chapters. They are introduction, methodology, analysis
and interpretation, findings and recommendations. The first chapter deals with
general background, literature review, objectives of the study, significance of the
study and definitions of relations. The second chapter consists of source of data,
sampling population, sampling procedure, tools for data collection, process of data
collection and the limitations of the study. The third chapter is more important as it
presents analysis and interpretation of the collected data. The fourth chapter
encompasses findings and recommendations