1 CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
1.1. Background of the Study
Nowadays, there are so many people who have more than one language. Most
of them are having two or more languages, namely their native language and the
second language. The language which is usually mastered well by people is their
mother tongue or native language. Most of them firstly used their mother tongue to
communicate with their family and society. However during their communication
with other people and because of the need of understanding other people about what
they mean, there is a demand for the people to master or know the other languages.
This condition causes many people want to learn another language to make their
communication effective.
People who master more than one language is called bilingual or
multilingual. Hundreds of millions people in the world routinely use two or more
languages in their daily lives. This also happens to the Indonesian people who are
multilingual. Indonesian people master at least the Indonesian national language that
is Bahasa Indonesia and their regional language. People usually master foreign
languages, such as English, Japanese, Chinese, and etc. The fact that people who can
use more than one language encourages them to mix code whenever they speak. It is
very common people can use more than one language at the same time. Moreover, it
is also possible for the bilingual or multilingual people to use more than one
2 The condition where people use more than one language or code in the same
topic, context, or people in communication is called code mixing. According to
Nababan (1993:32), code mixing is the situation in which the speaker mixes two or
more languages or kind of language in speech act. And Suwito (1985:75) states code
mixing is the use of two languages or more inserting the elements of language from
one language in the other consistently.
Code mixing can be seen in spoken and written language. Code mixing in
spoken language such as: radio program, television program, teaching-learning
process, and etc. The code mixing can also found in written language can found in:
newspaper, magazine, novel, internet medium, and etc. In internet medium there are
many code mixing is found, when people chat with other people at Facebook or
Yahoo Messenger. Facebook is the most famous and widely used by people.
Facebook is a social networking site that is currently booming in cyberspace.
Facebook is used as a place to add friends, business relations, advertising and even
just play games. Facebook makes people free to do anything because people can
communicate without having to meet face to face.
Facebook can be thought of as people’s home on the internet. It’s a place
where people can leave messages, browse through photo collections, or even to chat
online. It can be a great way to keep in contact with friends and family, and even find
long lost friend that we have not spoken for years.
Why do a lot of people really like to update status? Individually, Facebook is
regarded as a medium to show off. It tells information that can activate the same
sensation in the brain like other activities such as eating food, getting money, or
3 its simple mechanism. Whatever is written on Facebook, it will be immediately
responded very quickly within seconds and will make them feel better.
Facebook itself is always used by other people as a tool of communication. In
the Facebook there are a lot of kinds of code mixing, when people chat or write their
status in their timelines. Facebook deploys an increasing code mixing custom,
especially Indonesian and English language code mixing. With regard to the mind,
they prefer to talk about themselves and less likely to talk about other people. This
certainly has a risk of over share. Because it is a pleasure to share anything in this
medium, they don’t pay attention on issues they must share. The consequence is this
may be harmful for themselves. For example, when a criminal who updates their
status about the new crime, this will make it easier for the police to catch. Based on
the reasons above, the writer attempts to find out code mixing occurred in Facebook
status.
As an illustration, the researcher will present examples in a Facebook status
and some comments which describe the reality of the language use among them in
which afterward the reality of the language use can be categorized as code mixing.
The examples are as follows:
Dasar begok! Sayang kali aku gak ngerti fashion. Huft. (1)
GGG : Ganteng-Ganteng Gay. (2)
4 From examples number (1) until number (3) with the bold writing show the
examples of code mixing, because the words are used in two different languages
(Indonesian–English). It indicates the existence of language mixing, because the
Facebook users master two languages, Indonesian and English.
Based on this fact, the writer believes that research is needed to find out the
use of code mixing in social networking Facebook.
1.2. Problem of the Study
Based on the study background, the writer proposes some problems:
1. What is the type of code mixing used in Facebook?
2. What are the reasons of Facebook users to use code mixing in Facebook?
1.3. Objective of the Study
Based on the statement of the problem mentioned above, the objective study
of this analysis can be formulated as follows:
1. To find out the type of code mixing used in Facebook.
2. To find out the reasons of Facebook users to use code mixing in Facebook.
1.4. Scope of the Study
In this research, the writer will focus on description the types of code mixing
on the sentence of Indonesian-English code mixing in social networking Facebook.
The writer will do research in social networking Facebook dated from April to June
5 1.5. Significance of the Study
The significance of the study are expected to be useful for:
1. The English students, since it will give a better understanding about the
component of language in code mixing as well as the reasons of people to use
code mixing in their daily life.
2. The lecturers, particularly in teaching Sociolinguistics to teach varying
method of teaching code mixing which is not only occurred in written
language but also in spoken language.
3. The study will provide a better technique for other writers to conduct further
analysis about code mixing using a certain media.
4. Giving information to the reader that actually English has become a common
language nowadays which is often used in daily activities by mixing Bahasa
