Code Switching and Code Mixing On China Rich
Code Switching and Code Mixing On China Rich
Language as
communication tool
Sociolinguistics Monolingualism,
Code Language and Bilingualism &
Society Multilingualism)
China Rich
Code Multilingual
Code Choice Code Mixing Girlfriend
Switching country
Novel by Kevin
(Singapore)
Kwan
Research Questions Purpose of the
Research
1. What are the types of code
switching and code mixing 1. The types of code mixing
applied on the dialogues and code switching used
between the characters in in the novel entitled
the novel entitled China China Rich Girlfriend.
Rich Girlfriend?
2. What are the reasons that 2. The reasons that make
make the characters characters perform code
perform code mixing and mixing and code
code switching through the switching through the
dialogues in the novel dialogues in the novel
entitled China Rich entitled China Rich
Girlfriend? Girlfriend.
Significance of the Research
Theoretically Practically
• Contributing for the
• Expand the existing theory linguistics student and the
reader to get deeper
of sociolinguistics about comprehension and
code mixing and code understanding on code
switching. mixing and code switching,
the reasons which influence
• Find out the reasons which the characters in performing
code mixing and code
set off the characters in switching,
performing code mixing and
• Useful for the next researcher
code switching by using the and readers.
theory of Hoffman (1991).
Scope and Limitation of the
Research
Scope
Limitation
Sridhar (1996)
Multilingualism involving balanced, native like
command of all the languages in the repertoire
is rather uncommon.