Abstract:
This study aims to discover and analyze the types of code switching used by
the selected professions in talk shows and reasons of those selected professions
using code switching in their utterances. The main data sources used in this study
are selected talk show videos on YouTube.
The data are obtained by downloading, transcribing, highlighting the
utterances that contained code switching and underlying the English phrases,
clauses, or words. The writer uses qualitative descriptive method and uses
Charlotte Hoffmann’s theory in analyzing the data.
The result of this study shows that the selected professions used all of the
types of code switching, they are intrasentential, intersentential, and emblemaic
switching. There were also 5 reasons found why those selected professions using
code switching in their utterances. They are talking about particular topic, quoting
somebody else’s statements, being emphatic about something, interjection, and
repetition used for clarification. The reasons of express group identity and
clarifying the speech content for the interlocutor are not found
