AN ANALYSIS OF CODE SWITCHING IN
“BREAKOUT” NET TV
A THESIS
Submitted to the English Department of UNIMED In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for
The Degree of Sarjana Sastra
By:
FACULTY OF LANGUAGES AND ARTS
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Thank God. First of all, the writer would like to say thank to Jesus for the
love, blessing, guarding, guidance, and everything that have been given along her
life until the writer accomplish this thesis.
This thesis is aimed to fulfill one of the requirements to obtain the S1
degree of Sarjana Sastra at English Department in Faculty of Languages and Arts,
State University of Medan.
In completing this thesis, the writer has received a lot of assistances and
academic support from some people. Therefore, the writer would like to express
her sincere gratitude, love and special thanks to:
Prof. Dr. Ibnu Hajar Damanik, M.Si., the Rector of State University of
Medan.
Dr. Isda Pramuniati, M.Hum., the Dean of Faculty of Languages and
Arts.
Prof. Dr. Hj. Sumarsih, M.Pd., the Head of English Department.
Dra. Meisuri, M.A., the Secretary of English Department.
Dr. Rahmah, M.Hum., the Head of English Literature Study Program.
Dra. Sri Juriati Ownie, M.A., her Thesis Advisor.
Dra. Masitowarni Siregar, M.Ed., her Reviewer.
Drs. Elia Masa Gintings, M.Hum., her Reviewer.
All the Lecturers throughout her academic years at State University of
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Her beloved parents; her mother, Rosliana Panjaitan and her father,
Dompak Sitorus for the pray, love, moral and financial support. And also
thanks for the love and support from her dearest sister, Ana M. Friska
Sitorus and brothers Johanes Raja M. Sitorus, Krisman Ganda M.Sitorus.
All her classmates of Applied Linguistics Regular 2010 especially
Zahrina Putri, Devi Arista, Rizky Meiyani, Desi Situmorang, Dona Manalu, Nurhafiza, Irwan Saputra, Muis Dongoran, Adi Putra, Novinda and others that cannot be mentioned all. And also thank for the
supports and helps from Wira Pratama Siahaan, Juliana Pakpahan and
Waldy Butar-butar.
Maam Endah and Maam Euis, for helping the writer in preparing the files
for the purposes of this thesis.
Without their deep and sympathetic understanding, this thesis could not
complete. Over all, the writer hopes this thesis can give a bit contribution to the
Applied Linguistics. Therefore, comments, critics, suggestions, and advices are
expected from the readers.
Medan, Januari 2015 The writer,
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ABSTRACT
Bintang Nopita. S. 2014. An Analysis of Code Switching in
“Breakout” Net TV. Faculty of Language and Arts. State
University of Medan, 2014.
This study concerned with Code Switching used in Breakout Net TV. This research was conducted by using qualitative method. It focuses on the usage of code switching in breakout. The data of this study were the utterances of the presenters in the music program namely; Boy William and Sherryl Shenafia. The utterances which contain code switching were identified and analyzed. The findings show that there are three types of code switching uttered in Breakout, namely: Conversational switching are 94 utterances (65%), metaphorical switching are 26 utterances (18%), and situational switching are 24 utterances (17%). It means conversational switching is the type of code switching uttered dominantly by the presenters. Conversational switching as the dominant type of code switching uttered in the program shows that the presenters who spent most of their life time for living, study abroad, tend to use conversational switching as their way of speaking for showing the prestige.
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CHAPTER II: REVIEW OF LITERATURE A. Sociolinguistics ... 6
CHAPTER III: RESEARCH METHOD A. Research Design… ... 26
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C.Technique for Collecting Data ... 27
D. Technique for Analyzing Data ... 27
CHAPTER IV: DATA AND DATA ANALYSIS A. Data… ... 29
B. Data Analysis ... 29
1. The Types of Code Switching Used by the Presenters ... 29
a. Situational Switching ... 30
b. Metaphorical Switching ... 31
c. Conversational Switching ... 32
2. The Dominant Type of Code Switching Used in Breakout Net ... 37
3. The Implication of the Dominant Type of Code Switching ... 37
C. Research Findings… ... 38
CHAPTER V: CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS A. Conclusions… ... 39
B. Suggestions ... 39
REFERENCES ... 41
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LIST OF TABLES
TABLE 4.1 Code switching used by Sheryl Shenafia… ... 29
TABLE 4.2 Code switching used by Boy Wiliam ... 33
TABLE 4.3 Total percentage of Code switching used in
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LIST OF APPENDICES
APPENDIX 1 Table of Dialogue Transcription Analysis… ... 43
APPENDIX 2 Dialogue Transcriptions by Breakout’s Presenter
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CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
A.The Background of the Study
When people use language, they do more than just to another person to
understand the speaker’s thought and feelings (Fasold, 1996:1). It holds an
important role since the language is a media to express the thoughts, feelings and
experiences.
Language is an inseparable element from daily interaction of human life to
communicate with each other. The activity or process of expressing ideas and
feelings or giving information is call communication (Hornby, 2000: 225)
Language is an identity of the people. People the entire world and
different ethnic have their own communication tool. Some people are bilingualism
or even multilingualism when these people met with another from different ethnic,
they might not use their mother tongue to communicate each other. In other cases,
we often see there are people directly change the language they are conversing to
another language when someone else ask them about something, there is also
people switch or mix their language with other language when they are speaking.
Then these phenomenons are known as Code Switching and Code Mixing. As
stated by Grosjean (1982) that code switching as the alternate use of two or more
languages in the same utterance or conversation. Then, Holmes (1992) argues that
the feature of bilingual speech such as interference, code mixing and code
switching are normal phenomenon because bilinguals often find it easier to
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occurrence of code switching cannot be avoid among bilingual or multilingual
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