Research Problems Problem Limitation Research Objectives Research Benefits

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B. Research Problems

There is one problem to be solved in this research, namely, what are the types of code-mixing which occur in a presidential debate?

C. Problem Limitation

This research focused on the code-mixing, which is made by the participants of presidential debate which is held five times. Moreover, the main focus of this research is the types of code-mixing. In addition, the participants of the debate are the candidates in the presidential election. To collect the data, the researcher took all of the debate videos from youtube.com and made the transcription of the videos. The analysis of the data was done from how often the participants made code-mixing in their utterances.

D. Research Objectives

Since this research intended to find out the answer to the problem, this research has an objective. Based on the data, the researcher wants to find out the code-mixing types which commonly occur in the debate.

E. Research Benefits

The result of this research is useful to the next researcher, the readers and PBI students who are interested in sociolinguistics especially code-mixing. 5 1. The next researcher This research hopefully will help the next researcher who conducts the same topic by giving information related to code-mixing. By doing research on code-mixing, it will enrich the readers to understand more about code-mixing. The next researcher can try to conduct research on code-mixing, but on different issues such as code-mixing which occurs on twitter or magazines. 2. The readers This research will be useful for those who are interested in code-mixing topic. This research will give a deeper understanding about the types of code- mixing. Then this research will provide the readers with information about types of code-mixing. 3. ELESP students This research is expected to help ELESP students who are interested in sociolinguistics to give more information about code-mixing especially about the types of code-mixing.

F. Definition of Terms