35 In advertisement category, it could be seen that a noun phrase still dominated as
the part of speech among the three sport tabloids.
Based on the entirely data on Table 4.6, the phrase code-switching cases that were found in every category of those three sports tabloids were not too
many.
3. Whole-sentence Code-switching
The third type of code-switching was whole-sentence code-switching. A sentence has to contain a subject, verb, and object and or adverb which usually
use punctuation, such as full stop ., question mark ?, and or exclamation mark . The whole-sentence code-switching cases which were found in the three sport
tabloids, it could be seen in Table 4.11
Table 4.11: The Number of Whole-sentence Code-switching Cases in Indonesian Sport Tabloids
Sport Tabloids
Categories News Opinion Feature Advertisement Fiction
BOLA 8 13 5 11
SOCCER 3 2 8
MOTOR Plus 4
7 2
From Table 4.11, it showed that the whole-sentence code-switching cases which were found in the three sport tabloids were limited.
a. News
In BOLA tabloid, there were only 8 cases of whole-sentence code- switching found in news category. It was followed by 4 cases of whole-sentence
code-switching that were found in MOTOR Plus tabloid. In addition, the writer only found 3 cases of whole-sentence code-switching in SOCCER tabloid.
36 Overall, the total number of whole-sentence code-switching cases of those three
tabloids was not more than 20 cases. The most frequent whole-sentence code-switching in news category of the
three sport tabloids were presented on Table 4.12
Table 4.12: The Most Frequent Whole-sentence Code-switching in News Category of the Indonesian Sport Tabloids
BOLA tabloid No Whole-sentence
Total 1. That’s
all. 1
2. He is the warrior
1 3. I’ll
be back.
1 4.
It’s a basket ball game. 1
5. Indonesia races to the top.
1 SOCCER tabloid
1. I’m a
lady 1
2. Just go
1 3.
The gunner is back. 1
4. - -
5. - -
MOTOR Plus tabloid 1. Salute
1 2.
I am Vario what about you?
1 3. Having
fun. 1
4. Safety 1
5. -
b. Opinion
It was similar to the news category, in which the whole-sentence code- switching cases were limited. In BOLA tabloid, the writer found 13 cases of
whole-sentence code-switching in the opinion category. In the second place, was MOTOR Plus tabloid, in which there were 7 cases of whole-sentence code-
switching found in opinion category. The last, the whole-sentence code-switching cases were found as many as 2 cases in SOCCER tabloid.
37 Table 4.13 showed the most frequent whole-sentence code-switching in
opinion category of the three sport tabloids.
Table 4.13: The Most Frequent Whole-sentence Code-switching in Opinion Category of the Indonesian Sport Tabloids
BOLA tabloid No Whole-sentence
Total 1.
Take you to arena 1
2. Go international
1 3.
Talk less do more 1
4. Go ahead
1 5.
Dreams come true 1
SOCCER tabloid 1. Thanks.
1 2. Goodbye.
1 3. -
- 4. -
- 5. -
- MOTOR Plus tabloid
1. Thanks. 2
2. So, ride with care
1 3. Happy
birthday to
1 4.
is always boys. 1
5. Ride with care
1
c. Feature
