A Comparative Study of Common Chitoniya Tharu and English Provebs

Abstract

The present work,A Comparative Study of Common Chitoniya Tharu and English Proverbs,was carried out in order to find out the major syntactic, figurative, and contextual and mood related aspects of the Tharu and the English proverbs. It is a qualitative research that analyses the sentence structures, use of figurative and non-figurative language, context dependency and the mood employed in the proverbs of the above mentioned languages. The data consisted of 360 proverbs each from the English and the Tharu languages randomly selected through various secondary sources. Analysis of data revealed that the Tharu language has a large number of proverbs with minor sentences whereas the English language has a large number of simple sentences. Similarly, both the languages have majority of proverbs with literary meanings. The study also revealed that both the languages have more proverbs with indicative mood than any other types. Similarly, the proverbs in both the languages are used in three different contexts like moral, instructional and evocative. This study has been divided into five chapters. The first chapter deals with the introduction general background, statement of the problem, rational of the study, objectives of the study, research question, significance of the study, delimitation of the study and operational VI definition of the key terms. The second chapter deals with the review of related literature and conceptual framework included for the study under which review of related literature, implications of the review for the study and theoretical and conceptual framework. Chapter three consists of methods and procedures of the study adopted for the study under which design of the study, areas of the study, sampling procedures, tools for data collection, data collection procedure, data analysis and interpretation procedure. Chapter four deals with result and discussion, concrete thing of the thesis which has been included results, interpretation of data, types of sentence structure in Tharu proverbs, literal and literary language in Tharu proverbs, mood in Tharu proverbs and contextual category of Tharu proverbs and use of proverbs. Lastly,chapter five deals with summary, conclusion and implications of the thesis which has been included summary of the findings, conclusion and implications.