English Code Mixing by Women Political Leaders and Social Workers

Abstract

The present study entitled 'English Code Mixing by Women Political Leaders and Social Workers' is an attempt to identify, and analyze the different English code mixing in terms of major word classes, frequency of occurrence of words, contexts in which code mixing takes place and to find out the reasons for code mixing. The study is mainly based on the primary sources of data. The primary sources of data for this study were 20 speakers and 30 listeners of public speeches in Itahari. The researcher used judgmental or purposive non random sampling procedure for the collection of the data. The finding of the research work shows that there is maximum amount of English code mixing in Nepali speeches. It was also found that social workers mixed higher amount of English words compared to the political workers. The study consists of four chapters along with references and appendixes in the end. Chapter one introduces the study in terms of general background, review of related literature, objectives of the study, significant of the study and definitions of specific terms. Chapter two deals with the methodology for study including sources of data, population of the study, tools for data collection and process of data collection. Chapter three includes the analysis and interpretation of data using simple statistical tools such as frequency and percentage. Chapter four consists of findings and recommendations of the research study. On the basis of the analyzed data, findings have been prepared and in turn, on the basis of these findings, some recommendations have been made.