THE INDONESIAN-ENGLISH CODE SWITCHING FOUND IN SELECTED PROFESSIONS’ UTTERANCES IN TALK SHOWS

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