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Fashion 24 Feature 21
Backstabber 20
Womanizer 18 Food
Herworld
Film 12
c. News
In Cosmopolitan magazines, single-word code-switching were found infrequently. There were 481 single-word code-switching cases appearing in this
category. Out of that number, the most frequent single-word code-switching cases that existed in news category were noun words.
In Female magazines, there were 504 cases of single-word code-switching found in this category. In addition, the most frequent single-word code-switching
cases that occurred in news category were noun words. Herworld magazines had the most number of single-word code-switching
cases happening in news category. There were 586 cases established in this category. Furthermore, the most frequent single-word code-switching cases that
emerged in news category were noun words. In addition, table 4.5 showed some single-word code-switching which
happened frequently in the news category of the target magazines.
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Table 4.5 The Most Frequent Single-word Code-switching in News Category
Magazines Single-word examples
Total amount Film 32
You 18 Well 10
News Cosmopolitan
Love 9
Fashion 22 Treatment
16 Makeup
Film 14
Female
Facial 10 Fashion 28
Single 9 Beauty
Brand 8
Herworld
Body 7
d. Opinion
This category contained the least number of single-word code-switching cases in those three magazines. Out of the target magazines, Cosmopolitan
magazines had the most number of cases which were 335 cases in this category. Additionally, the most frequent single-word code-switching cases that existed in
opinion category were noun words. On the contrary, Female magazines had the least number of single-word
code-switching cases in opinion category. There were 94 cases in this category. Moreover, the most frequent single-word code-switching cases that happened in
opinion category were noun words. In Herworld magazines, there were 128 cases of single-word code-switching
in opinion category and the most frequent single-word code-switching cases that emerged in opinion category were noun words.
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In addition, table 4.6 showed some single-word code-switching which existed frequently in the opinion category of the target magazines.
Table 4.6 The Most Frequent Single-word Code-switching in Opinion Category
Magazines Single-word examples
Total amount Who
Where 32
Makeup 11 Sexy 10
Cosmopolitan
Skanky 8 Do 16
Not 10 Foundation 8
Cocktail Female
Fashion 3
Beauty Creamy
Foundation 4
Dear Herworld
Debate 3
3. Phrase Code-switching