Quoting Somebody Else Reasons of Using Code Switching in Chapter Three of Efendi’s
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3639ITESBES Si pradakso itu masih meneliti kukunya yang dicat merah
dengan muka bosan. Ketika pandangan mata kami beradu, aku mengangkat bahu dan berkata,
“A girl can never have too many shoes.”
“Or bags,” dia menjawab, “and jewelries.” Kami sama- sama tersenyum mendengar anekdot itu.
“Rashi Pradakso, right?” Dia mengangguk tanpa senyum, tapi ekspresinya,
sepertinya dia sudah kenal siapa aku. Well, who doesn‟t? Rashi
lalu menjatuhkan pandangannya pada
charmbracelet
yang kukenakan
di tangan
kiri —
the infamous
Maybella charmbracelet.
“It‟s Anyali Paxton.” Aku memberitahunya, bangga. Rashi mengangkat dagu dengan gaya angkuh.
“I know. I met him in Milan.”
Wow. Aku kaget sekaligus kagum. Cewek ini juga kenal Anyali?
This data has the same context as the previous data explained. The situation happens in New York, after the anniversary party of a prestigious boutique. In
this time when Maybella tells Rashhi that the bracelet was made by Anyali Paxton, Rashi replies Maybella by saying
“I know. I met him in Milan”
indicating that Rashi also knows Anyali Paxton and also has meet him before. In this case, the code switching occurs on the dialogue, Rashi’s utterances when
she replies Maybella. The code switching occurs in a form of a sentence, therefore it belongs to Inter-sentential code switching.
The speaker uses code switching
“
I know. I met him in Milan
” because the
speaker is being emphatic about the conversation. In this case, the speaker is being emphatic to the partner whom she is talking to, Maybella, because Maybella
uses English language first, in the previous dialogue conversation. When people talk to us using Language1, we will be unintentionally replies or changing our
language to Language1 in order to talk in the same language as our partners, especially when we know the language. Besides, considering the place which the
conversation happened which is in New York, the speaker automatically has an intention of using English.