Language Horizon: Journal of Language Studies
Vol 6, No 1 (2018): Volume 6 tahun 2018

THE LANGUAGE ATTITUDE OF FOLLOWERS TOWARDS DIAN PELANGI USING CODE SWITCHING IN HER INSTAGRAM

NUR OKSIALVIYANTI, ESA (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
25 Jan 2018

Abstract

Code switching is phenomenon which occurs in bilingual country,such us,Indonesia. Code switching is the process of switching or mixing two languages or more with in or between sentence. Most of researchers analyze code switching in oral text. So, this study used written text to be analyzed, specially in Computer Mediated Communication (CMC). CMC is the communication between human by computer. This study used Instagram of DianPelangi who is famous designer. This study focused on her caption which is categorized asasynchronous CMC. The aim of this study is to uncover the reactions of her followers towards code switching in her caption. Questionnaire was the technique to collect the data. The results of this study revealed that most of the participants assumed that the use of code switching by Dian Pelangi is positive. However, the half of participants prefer if she employed only one language while writing caption. Keywords: language attitude, code switching, Instagram

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Journal Info

Abbrev

language-horizon

Publisher

Subject

Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

Language Horizon is a peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to publishing high-quality original research articles that explore a wide range of topics related to language and communication, with a particular emphasis on: Linguistics Phonetics and Phonology Morphology and Syntax Semantics and ...