CODE SWITCHING IN SMS USED BY THE STUDENTS OF FKIP MATARAM UNIVERSITY

Main Author: APRIADI, ERI
Format: Thesis NonPeerReviewed Book
Bahasa: eng
Terbitan: , 2010
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Online Access: http://eprints.unram.ac.id/9366/1/chapter%201-3.doc
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Daftar Isi:
  • This thesis is concerned with how code switching is expressed in the SMS text. The writer writes this thesis in order to find out the language elements mostly code switched by the students of FKIP Mataram University, factors involved in code switching, and students’ motivations in using code switching. The writer collects a hundred SMS texts from his friends who sent SMS to the writer’s mobile phone. From the analysis of the whole data, the writer found that the code switching elements in Indonesian occur as many as 87 times, Sasak 10 times, English 2 times, Balinese once, while Sumbawanese, Javanese and Bimanese are not found. Moreover, for code switched element of each utterance, the writer found that English code switched elements occur as many as 57 times with the occurrence at word level 46 while at phrase level 11 times. Sasak code occurs 21 times with the occurrence at word 15 times, morpheme 4 times, and phrase 2 times. Furthermore Javanese code occurs 9 times consisting at morpheme level 5 times and word 4 times. Indonesian code occurs 7 time in which all of them at the level of word. Bimanese code occurs 3 times in which the level of word 2 times and morpheme 1 time. The next, Balinese code occurs 3 times with the occurrence at word 1 time, phrase 1 time, and clause 1 time. Finally, Sumbawanese code switched element is not found. As the result, students in writing the SMS tend to switch up Indonesian with other 2 or more language whereas the code or language mostly switched by the students is English. Then, the writer found there are three (3) factors involved in code switching: the participants, the setting, and the topic and three (3) students’ motivations in using code switching: to show off their educational background, to show their ethnicity, and to show social distance.