Code
switching on Facebook Status
In the globalization era, communications and
technology are growing up rapidly. There are many media that support our
communication either long or near distance. We can communicate each other
without any problem, such as letter, fax, phone or internet. Now, all the
people have already known facebook. Facebook is social media site that is used
to communicate with many people by internet network. It also can be used as
place to share about what we feel and think. Now, Indonesian people to
communicate are not only use one language (mother tongue) but also use a foreign
language was called by bilingualism. Bilingualism is ability to speak more than
one language such as English, France, Korean, and Arabic. When we use facebook
we often found status switch from Indonesian into English language. This
situation is called code switching. However they have reason to do code switch.
Therefore this essay, deals with to w hy they use code switching on facebook.
The Indonesian people surely have reason why
he or she switches their native language into English on facebook status. The
first reason is social status. Social status is an important thing to some
people. When they use code switching, they can increase their social status. So
that, other people consider them as the high level society. Then, they will get
confession from other people. It means when a person has ability to speak more
than one language it will give
assumption from other person that the speaker has high social status, so
it make the speaker more confident to exist on facebook.
The second reason is educative person. Like
the student of English department who learn English on their daily lecture day,
surely they are influenced by english on their own conversation. As we know
almost of the student in English department are exist on facebook. However, as
student of English department it can be considered as bilingual speaker because
they should have ability to speak English since they enter the department. it
influences them to do code switching on facebook status. This is the example of code switching written
by English student department on facebook status. Moh Hamidi
saya
siapkan keamanan termuda untuk mengawasi detik2 pemilihan capres di daerah
sampang...
NO COMENT,,
I WISH MY DEBATING WILL RUN WELL TOMORROW.....
NO COMENT,,
I WISH MY DEBATING WILL RUN WELL TOMORROW.....
In
conclusion,code switching is a phenomenon when bilingual or multilingual
speaker shifts their language from one language to other language.We often
found Code Switching in facebook status.The Indonesian people have some reasons
to do code switching on their facebook status. There are two reasons why they
do code switching.the first reason code switching will give assumption that they are high level
society.The second reason code
switching shows that the speaker is an
educative person.
By: Lilis holisoh
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