Person and Time Deixis in English and newari Langauge

Abstract

The thesis entitled “Person and Time Deixis in English and Newari Language”was conducted to find out the Newari person and time deixes and compare withthat of English. For this, I used both primary and secondary sources of data toconduct the research. The Newari native speakers of Kirtipur municipality werethe primary sources for this study. I followed both quantitative and qualitativeresearch design in general and survey research design in particular. Judgmentalsampling procedure was used to sample the population. The sample consistedof eighty-four Newari native speakers of Kirtipur municipality. Aquestionnaire and an unstructured oral interview were used as research tools fordata collection. The study found that Newari objective and genitive casedeicticexpressions were formed by suffixing the subjective case deictic expressions.The Newari third person deictic expressions don’t have separate terms toindicate gender. The Newari time deictic expressions have fewer terms thanEnglish. Moreover, the study reached at the conclusion that the Newari deixesare distinct and used differently than that of the English. This thesis comprises five chapters. The first chapter deals with introduction inwhich background/context, statement of the problem, rationale of the study,objectives of the study, research questions, significance of the study,delimitations of the study, and operational definitions of the key terms havebeen discussed. The second chapter covers the review of related literature,implications of the review for the study and theoretical/conceptual framework.The third chapter deals with the design of the study, population and sample,sampling procedure, data collection tools, data collection procedures, and dataanalysis and interpretation procedure. The fourth chapter deals with the resultsof the study and discussions of the collected data using different sorts of tableswith interpretations. Likewise, the fifth chapter deals with findings in summaryand conclusions as well as implications of the study of different level for thepurpose of improving the concerned domains. Moreover, some pedagogicalsuggestions have been included in this part.