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

Abstract

The present study was aimed at identifying the types and function of code-mixing and switching used by Facebookers. This study was designed as a qualitative study. There were 50 Facebook accounts were observed in this study. The results showed that alternation code mixing was mostly used by Facebookers. A mix language between English and Indonesian was identified in their caption of Facebook wall. The functions of code-switching and code-mixing are 50 data, some of the data, namely 26 data, have code-switching with from 26 data code-switching there are 18 personalization and objectivization and 7 facilities of expression and 1 message qualification. And 50 data code-mixing with details of 31 data personalization objectivization and 12 data facility of expression and 5 data message qualification and 2 data repetition.

Insertion Function in Code-Mixing Use on WhatsApp Group Chats Among University Students

“…This viewpoint confirms the relevance of facility expression in the frame of reference of codemixing use. Marasigan (1983), as cited by Kay et al (2022), affirmed that facility expression facilitates a speaker to use another language due to difficulty finding the right words when speaking or writing. As a result, the expression facility arises due to the inability to find the appropriate term in the current conversation, so speakers are allowed to use the common word in a foreign language.…”