An Analysis of English Code Mixing In Nepali Film Songs
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Faculty of Education Tribhuvan University Kirtipur, Kathmandu, Nepal
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This research work entitled “An Analysis of English Code Mixing in Nepali
Film Songs” was carried out to find out the English code mixing in Nepali film
songs and context and reasons for English code mixing in Nepali film songs. In
order to collect the data, secondary sources were used. The secondary data
were collected from different F.M. radio stations from Kathmandu and Butwal.
I transcribed 120 Nepali film songs from which I selected 20 songs for the
analysis. The findings of the study showed that out of 5722 codes 341 codes
were mixed in Nepali film songs which occupied 5.95% of the total codes. It is
also found that from total 341 codes, nouns have occupied the greater
percentage i.e. 65.98%. Likewise, verbs have occupied 6.45%, prepositions
2.34%, adjectives 17.30%, and exclamations 7.91%. While analyzing the
sentence level code mixing, I found only 7 English sentences out of 33
sentences in the Nepali film songs. The study concluded that the popularity of
English language as the major reason of English code mixing in Nepali film
songs. The study also found that English codes have occurred in different
situations i.e. in order to persuade, to make others happy, to establish
relationship, while greeting and to describe or praise others.
This thesis has been divided into four chapters. The first chapter consists of the
introduction of the study. This chapter consists of general background, review
of the related literature and objectives and significance of the study. The
second chapter deals with the methodology, sources of data, sampling
procedure and limitations of the study. Similarly, the third chapter presents the
analysis and interpretation of the data collected by the researcher. Finally, the
fourth chapter includes the findings and recommendations on the basis of
analysis and interpretation of the collected data. References and the appendices
have been presented at the end of the research.