Abstract

The objective of this research was to analyze English code-switching in indonesian magazine articles. It was to to identify the types of the English-Indonesian code-switching in Gadis magazine no. 04 April 2017. The researcher used qualitative research. This main article consists of 10 subtopic articles. The writer collected the data by reading the Gadis magazine and underlined the English code-switching happened in the writing of the articles. The types of code-switching occured were inter-sentional switching accounted for 13% and intra-sententional switching accounted for 87%. The code-switching occured in the boundary of words, sentences, and combination of Indonesian word and English word in a sigle word. The conclusion of this research was code-switching is accepted by Indonesian people in society to convey their ideas or meaning or in this case, to attract readers.

Highlights

  • Multilingual society causes people to use more than one language to communicate or best known as multilingual speaker

  • The aim of the study was to investigate the code mixing types occur in Gadis magazine no. 04 April 2017.Gadis magazine‟s articles are divided into 6 main titles of articles which are Gress, Gaya & Cantik (Style and Beauty), Obrolan (Chit-chat), Seleb (Celeb), Seru (Fun), Sekolah Kita (Our School), and Curhat (Confide in)

  • The writer collected the data by reading the Gadis magazine and underlined the English code-switching happened in the writing of the articles

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Introduction

Multilingual society causes people to use more than one language to communicate or best known as multilingual speaker. According to Ludi (2000,) multilingual individual is able to adapt his or her language choice to the situation and to switch from one language to the other, if neessary, independently from the balance between his or her competences. With increased penetration of English Language into the lives of people, its usage in both formal and informal contexts is rising day-by-day (Chughtai, 2016). The development of English influenced many languages not exception Indonesia language. One thing influenced by this development that happening in Indonesia is the change of language situation. The noticeable one is the growing of language phenomena called code switching. Trask (2007) explained that code switching is changing back and forth between two language varieties, especially in a single conversation.

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