Polingua : Scientific journal of Linguistics, Literature and Language Education
Vol 7, No 1 (2018)

Code-Mixing on Lyrics of Batak Pop Songs Martina I Love You from Trio Romansa

Abdul Gapur (Universitas Sumatera Utara)
Muhammad Pujiono (Universitas Sumatera Utara)
Taulia Taulia (Universitas Sumatera Utara)



Article Info

Publish Date
26 Mar 2018

Abstract

This paper discusses code-mixing that occurs in the lyrics of Batak pop songs entitled "Martina I love you" popularized by Trio Romansa. The aims to identify the form of code-mixing contained in the lyrics of the song 'Martina I love you' from Trio Romansa Trio. To analyze the form of code-mixing and the type of code-mixing in the song lyrics used code-mixing theory which refers to the opinion of Suwito (1983). The method used is descriptive qualitative, namely research that is collecting, processing data and analyzing data at the time the research was conducted. The conclusions obtained from this paper are a code–mixing of Indonesian and English into the Batak language in the song lyrics. The mixed code forms contained in the song lyrics consist of the insertion of words, phrases and clauses. The insertion of words in the form of words in Indonesian is one word, phrases in Indonesian are three phrases, and clauses in English are ten clauses. The type of code-mixing used in the song lyrics is in the form of outer code mixing and inner code mixing. The code-mixing that occurs is related to the context of song content, the limitations of suitable vocabulary in Batak language and prestige in language.

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Journal Info

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polingua

Publisher

Subject

Humanities Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

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Polingua : Scientific Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Language Education is a peer-reviewed open-access journal for publishing the results of high-quality research in all aspect of Linguistics, Literature and Language Education. The journal publishes state-of-art papers in fundamental theory, ...