IDEAS: Journal on English Language Teaching and Learning, Linguistics and Literature
Vol 2, No 1 (2014): IDEAS: Journal on English Language Teaching and Learning, Linguistics and Litera

CODE SWITCHING

Halim Shanty (Politeknik Negeri Ujung Pandang)



Article Info

Publish Date
23 Aug 2014

Abstract

This paper describes about the code switching. In multilingual society, peoples tend to use more than one language or a veriaty when they communicate to each other. They choose certain language to us in particular condition of situations. Code switching can be defined as the employment of more than one code or language in one sentence. In code switching one language may be more dominant than other. It happens when a speaker uses one language mostly than the other in a discourse. The dominant language is termed as "matrix language" while the subdominant one is "embedded language". Thus, for example the speakers of Indonesian-English code switching use Indonesian more than English, then Indonesian is the matrix language (ML) while English is the embedded language (EL).

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Journal Info

Abbrev

ideas

Publisher

Subject

Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

IDEAS Journal is published twice a year in the months of June and December (P-ISSN 2338-4778 and E-ISSN 2548-4192); it presents articles on English language teaching and learning, linguistics, and literature. The contents include analyses, studies and application of theories, research report, ...