f. The Poetic Function
The poetic function is often used by bilinguals to tell jokes, stories, songs, and poetic quotations for amusement or entertainment purpose. We often find
some people code switch in order to tell jokes or stories. Moreover, when the origin of the jokes or the stories are in other languages. It creates different
atmosphere when the jokes or the stories are not delivered in their origin, sometimes it even creates other meaning and does not deliver the fun things in a
right way. This is the example of the poetic function which is found in one of Ika
Natassa’s novels. Yang bikin percetakannya pusing adalah puisi Pablo Neruda yang kami
taruh di halaman pertama undangan. Ya maklum deh, puisi itu dalam bahasa Spanyol, yang ejaannya aneh-aneh. Aku dan Ajie suka banget
puisi ini karena kata-katanya indah. Mau tau ga bunyinya apa?
Ay, amar es un viaje con agua y con estrellas, con aire ahogado y bruscas tempestades de harina: amar es un combate de relampágos y dos cuerpos
por una sola miel derrotados. p. 220; ch. 11.
From those two paragraphs, the first one was the narration of the novel which is written from Andrea’s point of view. She talks about her wedding invitation, and
that in the first page of the invitation, there is a poem from Pablo Neruda. The second paragraph is the poetic function of code switching. She writes the poem of
Pablo Neruda directly, which is written in Spain without translating it into Indonesian.
Another example of using the poetic function is when someone quotes a song. It happened in this illustration, a conversation between two best friends.
They are talking about a new song from their favorite band. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
J: Do you know the song of iKON? The tittle is Wait for Me.
K: Yes, of course I know.
J: Please tell me the lyric of the song before this part. gidaryeo jigeum
neoegero gal tenikka, eodie itgeon gal tenikka.
K: Ah, that part. Oh neowa na gateun haneul arae isseodo
mannal sun eobtjiman nareul mideojwo I’ll be there for you.
The poetic function of the conversation occurs two times here. The first one is when J sang the song in order to ask K about the part before that part. The second
one is when K sang the lyric before the part that J asked before.
B. Theoretical Framework
This section briefly describes the summarized and synthesized theories which are used to answer the research questions. As this research has two research
questions, which are related to the types of code switching and the speech functions of code switching, there are also two theories which are used. The first
research question will be analyzed by using Poplack’s theory. The second question wi
ll be analyzed by using Appel and Muysken’s theory. The researcher used a theory which is proposed by Poplack in 1980 to
answer the first research question. According to Poplack 1980, there are three types of code switching. The first one is called as tag switching; the second one is
inter-sentential code switching; and the last one is intra-sentential code switching.
1. Tag switching is code switching which includes the use of a tag, for example
I mean, yeah, you see, anyway, etc.
2. Intra-setential switching is code switching which is usually in the form of a
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