Code Switching in Line Group Chatting Used by Students of English Department in Udayana University

Adisthina Cahyaning Putri,I Made Sena Darmasetiyawan,Ketut Alit Ida Setianingsih

doi:10.24843/jh.2018.v22.i04.p05

Abstract

Code switching is a phenomenon which can be found in our daily conversations even both in written or spoken. Code switching refers to the use of two languages within a sentence or discourse. This study entitled Code Switching in Line Group Chatting used by English Students of English Department in Udayana University used qualitative and quantitative method. Three types of code switching proposed by Poplack (1980) and three main factor of code switching proposed by Holmes (2013). In order to analyze the factors of code switching, open-ended and close-ended questionnaire was given to the 18 English students in C class. There were 25 data which divided into tag switching, inter-sentential switching and intra-sentential switching. The type of code switching which mostly used by the English students is intra-sentential switching. According to the questionnaire, social factor such as participant, status, and solidarity have an important roles in influencing the code switching.

Highlights

Code switching is a common phenomenon in today’s society, especially in bilingual or multilingual environment
The technique was observation by reading C class’s group chat in social media Line, followed by screen capturing the chats which contained code switching as the documentation, selecting and classifying in order to find out the types of code switching and gave them a questionnaire in order to find out the factors of code switching used by the English students in C Class in their conversations
In order to answer the second problem that is about factors of code switching, the theory proposed by Holmes (2013) with open-ended and close-ended questionnaire is used

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Introduction

Code switching is a common phenomenon in today’s society, especially in bilingual or multilingual environment. Code switching certainly can be found in conversations, lectures, speeches, or other kinds of communication, delivered both in written and spoken forms. This fact showed that how important code switching takes role in communication events. The dominant perspectives in the study of code switching have been either sociolinguistic or grammatical in nature. Code switching occurs when a speaker alternates between two or more languages in speaking or writing. Since there were a lot of people who can speak more than two languages, they often switch their languages. We could see this phenomenon in English students’ conversations

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