Kata Kita: Journal of Language, Literature, and Teaching
Vol 8, No 3 (2020)

Varieties of Code Used by a Mixed Culture Student

Theodoron Fredrik (Petra Christian University, Jl. Siwalankerto No.121-131, Siwalankerto, Wonocolo, Surabaya)



Article Info

Publish Date
23 Dec 2020

Abstract

Codes or dialects are the most important factor in society to communicate every day. In a society, a person acquires and learns the particular code to get along with the community. It becomes interesting when a person can speak more than one code. The purpose of this study is about the varieties of code used by a person on several occasions with different people and codes/dialects. This study used qualitative approach. The results show that there were five codes that the subject used and the most frequent code spoken by the subject was Kupangnese. It can be concluded that the participants whom the subject talked to influenced the Kupangnese code to occur more.    Keywords: variety, code, mixed culture 

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Journal Info

Abbrev

sastra-inggris

Publisher

Subject

Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

Kata Kita is a journal dedicated to the publication of students research in the areas of literature, language, and teaching. In the study of language, it covers issues in applied linguistics such as sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, critical discourse analysis, pragmatics, sylistics, corpus ...