Terms of Greeting and Taking Leave in Danuwar and English

Abstract

This thesis entitled "Terms of Greeting and Taking Leave in Danuwar and English" is a successful attempt to explore terms used for greeting and taking leave in the Danuwar language .This is the first research in the field of communicative functions in Danuwar. Further this thesis compares the explored terms of Danuwar with the respective terms available in the English language. I used primary sources for Danuwar and secondary sources for English. I collected primary data from 40native speakers of Danuwar using simple random sampling procedure. A carefully prepared questionnaire was used as the research tool to elicit the data. This research has explored the terms of greeting and taking leave in Danuwar and categorized them. Choice of terms for males and females differ in Danuwar and different terminologies are used for people of different ranks. Unlike in English greetings in Danuwar do not vary according to time of a day. This thesis consists of four chapters, i.e. Introduction, Methodology, Analysis and Interpretation, and Findings and Recommendations .The, first chapter deals with the general background, review of the related literature, objectives of the study, significance of the study. The second chapter contains the methodology which is sub-chaptered as the sources of data, sampling procedure, tools for data collection, process of data collection and the limitations of the study. In the same way the third chapter includes analysis and interpretation of the data obtained from both the languages using appropriate illustrations and tables. In this chapter the terms of Danuwar and English for greeting and taking leave have been compared vividly. The differences and similarities among them have been listed with appropriate examples. The last chapter has the findings and recommendations of the study in which some pedagogical implications have been recommended to better the findings of this study as well as to strengthen such further studies.