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Code Switching on “Catch Me Up!”: A New Style of News Writing? Wildi Adila; Afika Hany Amaliab; Lina Nur Ainic; Sari Murni; Imaduddin Hanif
Surakarta English and Literature Journal Volume 7, Number 2 (August 2024)
Publisher : University of Surakarta

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.52429/selju.v7i2.54

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News writing is generally formulated using a standard, formal language style. However, Catch Me Up!, an online daily newspaper, broke those strict rules by offering casual, loose, non-standard language which predominantly used code-switching as one of the ways to alter formal to informal language styles. Hence, this study aimed to describe the various types of code-switching that occurred on Catch Me Up! and explain why the news frequently employed code-switching. Three theories underlie the present research; types of code-switching by Poplack and a combination of reasons for code-switching by Hoffmann, Gumperz, and San. The study applied the descriptive-qualitative method since the data were in the form of words, phrases, clauses, and sentences. The data sources were taken from 17 international news published in July 2023. The results revealed that, out of 235 found data, intra-sentential switching became the most occurred data regarding code switching types. In line with the reasons for code-switching, addressee specification and expressing group identity appeared dominantly in this study, followed by talking about a particular topic, interjection, indicating emotions, intention for clarifying the speech substance for interlocutors, and quoting somebody else.
Associative Meaning of Figurative Language Found in Taylor Swift’s Midnights (3am edition) Sari Murni; Wildi Adila
SPHOTA: Jurnal Linguistik dan Sastra Vol. 17 No. 2 (2025): SPHOTA: Jurnal Linguistik dan Sastra
Publisher : Fakultas Bahasa Asing (FBA) Universitas Mahasaraswati Denpasar

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.36733/sphota.v17i2.9634

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Midnights (3am edition) is a more complex version of Taylor Swift’s album, Midnights. It is also her first autobiographical album because her previous albums were about myths. Midnights album is mostly about her life and discusses people in her past. This research aims at analyzing the content of the songs, how Taylor expresses her story in the past using figurative language, and what Taylor means by using associative meaning in the Midnights (3am edition) album. Data source in this research is spotify and genius website, after that researcher uses a descriptive qualitative method to analyze the data. Data is collected using documentation. Four steps are used to analyze data: domain analysis, taxonomy analysis, componential analysis, and cultural themes. The results of this study show that there are 87 data of figurative language in Midnights (3am edition). The most common figurative language is overstatement, which is as many as 22 (25%), followed by metaphors, as many as 19 (22%) data. Furthermore, there are 83 data associative meanings of figurative language. Connotative meaning is the most common data found in this study, with 64 (77%) data.