A Sociolinguistic Study on Code Switching Among Overseas Indonesian Students on Facebook Comments (original) (raw)
This aim of this study is to examine the use of code switching on Facebook comments. This study investigates the types of code switching that occurred on the Facebook comments of overseas Indonesian students, the shifts of code switching between female and male students, and the reasons why overseas Indonesian students use code switching. The study respondents were overseas Indonesian students who had already signed up as Facebook users. A qualitative approach using descriptive methods was used. The data were analysed using the theory developed, which identifies the types of code switching on Facebook comments and the shifts of code switching between female and male on Facebook comments (Holmes, 1995). The reasons why overseas Indonesian students switched code on Facebook comments were analysed by using theory about the differences between females and males when using code switching (Lakoff, 2005) and theory about types of code switching that occur on Facebook comments: intersentent...
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