Typology of Code-mixing in EFL Learners’ Facebook Chatting Transcripts
Ruth Victoria Ima Yulianingsih
ABSTRACT
The existence of Facebook as a social media networking on the internet raised up a new phenomenon toward the language use in a conversation called Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC). CMC refers to communication produced when humans interact with one another using computers (Herring, 2001). Language in CMC is treated as half-talking and half-writing since it shared some similarities of the both features. This condition then leads into the occurrence of spoken discourse phenomenon in CMC, which was called as code-mixing. Code-mixing refers to “all cases where lexical items and grammatical features from two languages appear in one sentence,” (Muysken, 2000, p. 1). This study was aimed to find out the types of code-mixing on Facebook chatting transcripts of 10 English Department students batch 2011 from Satya Wacana Christian University, Salatiga, Indonesia. The data collected were analyzed by using the typology of code-mixing framework as proposed by Muysken (2000). Findings showed that all of the typology of code-mixing such as: insertion, alternation, and congruent lexicalization were all found in the participants’ chatting scripts. From 71 instances analyzed, 60 instances (84.50%) corresponded as insertion, 9 instances (12.68%) were categorized as alternation, and 2 instances (2.82%) were classified as congruent lexicalization.
