Condolence, Compliments and Sympathy in English and Nepali

Abstract

This study is to identify and compare the exponents of condolence, complimentsand sympathy used by the native English and Nepali speakers. For this study, theresearcher took sample population from British Council and British Embassy,which consisted of 20 native English and 60 Nepali speakers. The study wasentirely based on the primary data i.e. the responses from the native English andNepali speakers through questionnaire distributed to them. Then after, theresponses given by them were recorded for analysis and interpretation. On the basisof analysis and interpretation the researcher came up with the conclusion that thenative English speakers were found more formal than their Nepali counterpartswhile expressing condolence, the native Nepali speakers were found more formalthan the native English speakers while expressing compliments and the equalnumber of the native English and Nepali speakers were more formal whileexpressing sympathy. The study is divided into four chapters.Chapter oneis an introductory. It includesgeneral background, review of the related literature, objectives of the study, andsignificance of the study.Chapter twodeals with the methodology applied to carryout the research under which sources of data, sampling procedure, tools for datacollection, process of data collection and limitations of the study are presented.Chapter threepresents analysis and interpretation of the data. In this section bothstatistical as well as descriptive approach are used.Chapter fourincorporatesfindings and recommendations of the research. The references and appendices formthe concluding part of the thesis. ix