An Analysis of Indonesia English Code Mixing in Facebook Status Users

Abstract

This research investigates the use of code mixing in Facebook by Indonesian people. The purpose of this study is to describe the kind of code mixing used by Indonesian people in Facebook status users. This research employs the descriptive qualitative method. The data were taken from the Indonesian Facebook users posting. The data are analyzed based on Suwito’s theory. The results show that there are six types of linguistic forms of code mixing consisting of 11 data or 22% form of word; 21 data or 42% data phrase; 2 data or 4% repetition; 6 data or 12% idiom; 9 data or 18% clause; 1 data or 2% hybrid. Thus, the conclusion of this research is the students use two languages i.e. Indonesia and English as code mixing, and the researchers found the Facebook status users used code mixing of the phrase in the most form of code mixing. Keywords: Sociolinguistic, Code Mixing, Facebook

The Analysis of the Uses of Code Switching and Code Mixing in Social Media Among Facebookers

“…(Wardhaugh, 1986) mentions they point of code-mixing in which two or more languages are used to form utterance. On the other hand, (Aurima and Windyawati, 2018) states that code switching emphasizes the switch of a language to another language.…”

“…(Gerard Van HerkG V, 2012) States that a common occurrence in bilingual, and multilingual communities is, code-switching refers to instances in which people alternate between at least two languages or language varieties in a single conversation (across sentences or clause boundaries). Aurima & Windyawati, (2018) states that code switching is the event of code transition from one code to another code. (Suwito, 1983) states that code switching is a situation where speakers deliberately change a code being used, namely by switching from one to another.…”