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An Analysis of Code Switching in Media Social in Facebook

This document introduces a study that analyzes code switching in social media on Facebook. The study aims to identify the types of code switching used on Facebook. Some examples of code switching found on Facebook include switching between Indonesian, English, and Lombok languages. The study uses theories from Poplack (1998) and other linguists to analyze the types of code switching present, such as tag switching, intra-sentential switching, and inter-sentential switching. The results of the study are intended to help readers and students better understand code switching and the languages used on Facebook.

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An Analysis of Code Switching in Media Social in Facebook

This document introduces a study that analyzes code switching in social media on Facebook. The study aims to identify the types of code switching used on Facebook. Some examples of code switching found on Facebook include switching between Indonesian, English, and Lombok languages. The study uses theories from Poplack (1998) and other linguists to analyze the types of code switching present, such as tag switching, intra-sentential switching, and inter-sentential switching. The results of the study are intended to help readers and students better understand code switching and the languages used on Facebook.

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An Analysis of Code Switching in Media Social in Facebook

Created:

Nurmila Hasan

321414036

Class A

ENGLISH DEPARTMENT

FACULTY LETTER AND CULTURE

UNIVERSITY STATE OF GORONTALO

2018
CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION

This chapter attempts to introduce the background of research, concerning with the code

switching in facebook. This chapter also presents the research question, the aim of research, the

research delimitation, and the research significances in terms of theoretical and practical

contribution

1.1 Basic consideration

In speaking often we use two languages or more than one language every day either with

family, relation, friends and new comer. In our country many diverse languages are used because

they have residence areas of different the form languages such as Balinese Javanese,

Gorontalones, Sundanese, etc. The world also there are many languages used such as Korean,

English, Indonesian, Arabic, Iraq, Japan, China, Thailand, etc in accordance with the residence

them. Therefore, so many diverse languages so that people using more than one language or so-

called code switching or bilingualism.

In addition, code switching Also is one of the phenomena that occur Often anywhere

better in the world of education, politics, economics and social media, now .in Indonesia to

communicated language switching occurred in the world of social media especially Facebook.

facebook is a social media service where people who do not know each other through facebook.

Facebook also is a social network website that provides an extensive number of features

for its users to socialize and share information about Themselves (Eldin, A. A.: 2014). Hence,

facebook until it Became popular in social media and facebook has many benefits. Firstly, to

help businesses through facebook users because users can carry out promotional items they want

to sell .secondly, users can communicate with each other directly without inlaid advance. Third,
users will get a variety of new friends from different areas. Therefore, facebook has a lot of

takers.

In addition, in the majority of Facebook users when they chat and are always posted on

transferring the code. Thus, this habit has become a phenomenon that is not conscious.

Therefore, the researcher conducting research rather simple code facebook social media.

The main reason, the researcher choose code switching in facebook,because the users of

facebook it's always used language code switching but them to do code switching have some

the reason. There are some reasons in conducting in this research, they are as follow:

1. To know the types ,they use code switching in facebook because they do not know the name

of the type

2. It is important for reader, because the reader still confused to make the different both code

switching and code mixing

From the social media in facebook, the researcher found some intermediate code

switching . The following are some examples of language code switching that occurred social

media in facebook :

Data 1

Data 2
from data above is the language code switching from Indonesia to lombok, Indonesia to

English .

based on explantion above, we can know the language they use in social media

especially in facebook is English ,Indonesian and lombok. code switching is one of the problems

that often occur in the world that is less noticed by them, especially social media in facebook

quite fathomable is very important in the analysis because to know the type is what is used social

media in facebook and the reason the occurrence of code switching

Based on phenomena above, the researcher want to find out code switching in social

media especially in facebook, to find out what are the types social media in facebook. So, this

research is code switching of social media in facebook.the researcher will use poplack (1998)

theory and theory of some linguistic experts.

1.2Research questions

This research focuses on the following one research question:

1. What are the types of code switching in facebook ?


1.3 Aim of research

1. To know the types of code switching in facebook.

1.4 Significance of research

The result of this research is to give some benefit practical contribution. practically, this

study is expected to be useful for the reader and student will know the problems that often occur

in the transition code switching and types are in use in code switching as tag code switching

,intra-sentential code switching (translation or word / phrase substitute on within a sentence) and

inter- sentential code switching in social media in facebook

The additional benefit of this study is to the future research who conducted the same

research, I hope that it can be used as important additional references that enriches theoretical

that enriches theorical aspect of code switching

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