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Bilingualism: The Role Of Code Switching In Linguistics

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Language is a system of an arbitrary verbal symbol which is used by member of speech community as a means of communication to interact and express their ideas, feelings, and thoughts (Wardaught, 1986, p. 112). As time goes by, the language is evolved from century to century. As the result, most people, especially in Indonesia, now use more than one language to communicate to each other. This thing is called Bilingualism. According to Butler and Hakuta (2006), bilingualism however is a complex psychological and socio-cultural linguistic behaviour and has multi-dimensional aspects. For example, when someone goes somewhere abroad, they need English skill to communicate with the other. And when they came back to their country, some of them are …show more content…

Code switching occurs when conversants use both languages together to the extent that they change from one language to the other in the course of a single utterance (Wardhaugh, 1986: 103). Hudson (in Nurlilawati, 2006: 8) stated that code switching can be divided into two, internal code switching and external code switching. Internal code switching is the switching happens from a national to regional language. In this era, technology has been developed rapidly. People now can live easily by the help of technology. One of its assistances is to make the people easier to communicate. There are so many communication media that support us to make a practice communication either with the people near us or with someone in far distance. Television is one of the products of technology. It can spread the use of code switching and code mixing to every people in different distant of area because there are a lot of programs which includes bilingual …show more content…

According to Wikipedia, Sarah Sechan is Indonesian talk show which is hosted by Sarah Sechan on NET. The host delivers a particular topic which is mixed with funny jokes every day. She will have some chitchat with guest stars and will discuss something that is not well-known by most people. This program adds interesting items and involve the audiences in the studio as well as at home. This program is a joyful, interesting and humorist program but of course it will give useful information for the society. The use of code switching are often found nowadays in the daily communication since many people can master more than one language. The researcher is going to study the code switching in the spoken language rather than in the written language. Therefore, the researcher feels it worth to investigate code switching used in the spoken language, in this case is its use in a popular talk show TV program called Sarah Sechan.
1.1 Identification of Problems
This research has a purpose to investigate the code switching in the spoken language used by the host of Sarah Sechan talkshow.

1.2 Statement of the

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