Forms of Welcoming, Thanking and Expressing Good Wishes in Bantawa and English
Date
2021
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Department of English Education
Abstract
This research work entitled “Forms of welcoming, thanking and expressing good wishes
in Bantawa and English” has been carried out to find out the forms of welcoming,
thanking and expressing good wishes in Bantawa and to compare and contrast them with
those of the English language. It compared and contrasted on the basis of the language
forms used for respected people, family members,relatives,strangers, friends, mother,
father,elder brother, sister, great festivals.The data were collected from 40 native
speakers of Bantawa language from Hatuwagadhi Rular Municipality, Bhojpur district.
The informations were selected using purposive nonrandom sampling procedure. The
data were collected with the help of questionnaire and interview. The sources of data for
English were collected from different books, thesis, dictionaries and articles. The
researcher found that both English and Bantawa native speakers use formal and polite
from while welcoming to respected people, relatives,and unfamiliar friends and with
senior family members. They use the informal form of welcoming with junior family
members, familiar friends and with servant. Bantawa native speakers use the polite form
of thanking with mother compared to English people. While expressing good wishes on
the occasion of birthdays, marriage anniversaries and great festivals speaker of both
languages use the polite and formal form.
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This is divided into five different chapters. The first chapter, ‘introduction’ includes the
background, statement of the problem, objectives of the study, research question of the
key term. Chapter second, deals with the theoretical literature, empirical literature,
implications and conceptual frameworks. The third chapter deals with the methodology
employed to conduct the study. The method and procedures of the study incorporate the
research design,population,sample and sampling strategy, study areas and tools, data
collection tools and techniques, data collection procedure and data analysis and
interpretation procedure come under in third chapter. Analysis and interpretation of
results are presented in the fourth chapter. The fifth chapter deals with the conclusion and
recommendations. Some implications of the study in policy level, practice level and
further research are presented in this section. This chapter is followed by reference and
appendices to make the study scientific, valid, reliable and authentic.
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English language, Bantawa language