BRIGHT
Vol 2, No 1 (2019)

THE INDONESIAN-ARABIC CODE MIXING ON FACEBOOK AMONG THE MEMBER OF WANITA INDONESIA BERCADAR (WIB) COMMUNITY

Dwi Warry Octaviana (Institut Pendidikan Indonesia Garut)



Article Info

Publish Date
06 Mar 2019

Abstract

Facebook has become one of the main communication media which people utilize to keep in contact with friends and acquaintances. Thus, this makes it an appealing medium of spoken-written language to identify trends of code mixing among them in informal social domains. This site popularity has aroused the researcher’s interest to choose it as a ground for this study. The aim of the study was to identify the form of code mixing which was frequently used by the member of Wanita Indonesia Bercadar (WIB) community. This research applied descriptive qualitative method. The data analysis of this research would be based on the observation of Facebook status and wall interaction. The data were analyzed using the observation checklist. Then, the data were analyzed based on the linguistic form of code mixing by Suwito’s theory. The results showed that word insertion was the most frequent inserted level of code mixing on Facebook among the member of Wanita Indonesia Bercadar (WIB) community.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

bright

Publisher

Subject

Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

BRIGHT is a journal of English Language Teaching, Linguistics and Literature. It is published twice a year in the months of January and July. it presents articles on analysis studies, application of theories, research reports, materials development and reviews in the area of English language ...