Code-Switching and Code-Mixing in WhatsApp Group Chats by FEB UMY Lecturers

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10.2991/assehr.k.210120.146How to use a DOI?

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Code-Switching, Code-Mixing, WhatsApp Group, Chats, FEB UMY Lecturers

Abstract

Communication is compulsory in everyday life of society. In the majority, people in today’s society are multilingual; they use more than one language in their daily conversation. Moreover, in the current 4.0 industrial era, linguistic phenomena are increasingly varied, especially when it comes to the various media people use in conducting conversations. One of the familiar media used by society nowadays is WhatsApp (WA). The existence of a multilingual society supported by the presence of a media like WA will allow the occurrence of code-switching and code-mixing. This research was descriptive qualitative research with a documentation method. The study’s data were the chats of the lecturers on the WhatsApp Group (WAG) of FEB (Faculty of Economics and Business) UMY lecturers. It aimed to describe the types of code-switching and code-mixing, the factors causing it, and its functions. It found that the types of code-switching in WAG of FEB UMY lecturers were internal and external code-switching. Meanwhile, the caused factors were the speakers, the speech partners, and the changing topic in the conversation. Furthermore, this research also uncovered that the types of code-mixing in the WAG were insertion (word phrase), alternation, and congruent lexicalization. This code-mixing was caused by the limitation in the use of the code, the use of popular terms, speech partners, topics to evoke a sense of humor, and the last was to be merely prestigious. Besides, the social functions of both code-switching and code-mixing were to assert power, declare solidarity, and convey the affective meaning of information.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Sri Ani Puji Setiawati
AU  - Yashinta Farahsani
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/01/21
TI  - Code-Switching and Code-Mixing in WhatsApp Group Chats by FEB UMY Lecturers
BT  - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Sustainable Innovation 2020–Social, Humanity, and Education (ICoSIHESS 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 362
EP  - 369
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210120.146
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210120.146
ID  - Setiawati2021
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