An Analysis of Code Mixing in Twitter

Abstract

The research is focused on explaining the types of code mixing that appear in twitter status. The source of the data is twitter status which find out from 8 – 24 August 2018 and the data are sentences boundary that has code mixing. The Data collection techniques used in this research is an Observation Method with writing technique. The instrument of research is human instrument and Musyken’s theory as point to classify the type of code mixing. Furthermore, the data analysis technique uses data reduction, data display and drawing conclusion. In the research finding, there was found that three types of code mixing such as insertion, alternation and congruent lexicalization. The most type which appears in twitter status is insertion and followed by congruent lexicalization and the last is alternation. The English word, phrase and clause are mixed into single sentence that has Indonesian language as a main code. Keywords— language, code mixing, twitter