Reasons for Social Media Users’ Code Switch Indonesian Teenagers Perspective

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10.2991/eltlt-18.2019.71How to use a DOI?

Keywords

code switching, social media, teenagers

Abstract

Indonesian teenagers of the world today (jaman now) are a generation with a high awareness on the importance of learning English as foreign language. This awareness leads to a phenomenon widely spread amongst them known as code switching. Code switching is described by Hymes as a common term for alternatively use of two or more languages, varieties of a language or even speech styles. The aims of this paper are to study the forms and the reasons for social media users, especially teenagers, in using code switching. This paper is an interpretive research. Firstly, researchers classified the collected data following Poplack’s (1980) classifications on the kinds of code-switching. The second problem about the reasons of code switching is answered by the theory of Appel and Muysken (2006). The result shows that the reasons for teenagers’ code switching in social media room are as a referential, directive, expressive, phatic, metalinguistic, and poetic purposes.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Johan Kristanto
AU  - Priska Meilasari
PY  - 2019/06
DA  - 2019/06
TI  - Reasons for Social Media Users’ Code Switch Indonesian Teenagers Perspective
BT  - Proceedings of the UNNES International Conference on English Language Teaching, Literature, and Translation (ELTLT 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 371
EP  - 375
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/eltlt-18.2019.71
DO  - 10.2991/eltlt-18.2019.71
ID  - Kristanto2019/06
ER  -