Code mixing in the SMS used by Petra Christian University student's - Digital Collection of Petra Christian University

This thesis is concerned with how Code Mixing is expressed in the SMS
texts. The writer writes this thesis in order to find out the absorbing code,
absorbed code and the linguistic unit of the absorbed code used by Petra Christian
University students. The writer collects two hundred SMS texts from her friends
who sent SMS to the writer?s mobile phone. In this research, the writer uses the
theory of code mixing by Kachru and Suwito (1982). Besides that she also uses
the language of SMS theory stated by Hard af Segerstad and the type of
Indonesian variety in SMS text by Purwoko and Hendrarti. The writer analyzes
the absorbing code and also the absorbed code of each utterance. She classified
them into five categories, such as Indonesian, Chinese, Javanese, Banjarese and
English. Then the writer analyzes the linguistic unit of the absorbed code in which
the linguistic units are morpheme, word, phrase and clause. From the analysis of
the whole data, the writer found the absorbing code in Indonesian occurs as many
as 187 times, Javanese 7 times, English 4 times, Banjarese 2 times, while Chinese
is not found. Moreover, for absorbed code of each utterance she found that
Javanese absorbed code occurs as many as 180 times with the occurrence at word
level as many as 143 times while at morpheme level 37 times. English code
occurs 113 times with the occurrence at word level 97 times and phrase 16 times.
Furthermore Chinese code occur 45 times consisting of word level 44 times and
clause 1 time. Banjarese code occurs 34 times in which the level of word are 29
times, 3 times in morpheme, 1 time for each phrase and clause. Finally, absorbed
code in Indonesian occurs 5 times in which only in word level. As the result in
this study, students in writing the SMS tend to mix up Indonesian with other 2 or
more languages whereas the code or language mostly absorbed by the students is
Javanese.

Keyword
code mixing, absorbing code, absorbed code, morpheme, word, phrase, clause

Category
s1 - Skripsi/Undergraduate Thesis (Program Studi Sastra Inggris S-1)

Rights
Undergraduate Thesis No. 02011566/ING/2006; Janti Sukangto (11401141)
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