Abstract
This study aims to find out the types of the code switching occur in the tweets posted by the Indonesian K-Pop Fans on Twitter. As the phenomenon of code switching in social media is very common nowadays, it makes the writer interested in doing this research. The fifteen data were collected and analyzed by using descriptive qualitative method. In analyzing data, the writer uses the theory proposed by Poplack (1980). The result of this study shows that from fifteen tweets only two types of code switching were found namely inter-sentential switching and intra-sentential switching.
Highlights
In this digital era, people can’t be separated from the use of social media
The difference between her study and this study are, her study focused on both code switching and code mixing but this study only focused on code switching
Inter-sentential switching became the least found function because the Indonesian K-Pop Fans rarely switch their utterance within the sentence boundary
Summary
People can’t be separated from the use of social media. Social media has become the primary need because without the existence of social media, they can’t communicate and do interaction online. One examples of social media is Twitter. Twitter is a free micro blogging application that allows registered members to post what are in their mind. When we post in this application, our content will be called as tweets. Like, retweet, quote and reply to the tweet. They can follow other users and interact with them (Rouse, Margaret 2015)
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