57
b. Topic-CommentRelative Clauses 52 Times : 35
When a speaker knows that someone can speak a language fluently, sometimes people do start the conversation with a language then they would give
Data 8
Melon
: “Kelana, student databased yang google drive itu gak bisa di edit bilang
sama Iain Kelana
: “Udah kubilang loh, dia suruh buat spreadsheet nya dulu.”
Melon : “Udah, tapi ga bisa juga.”
Elan :
“Itu karena extensionnya .ods tu. Dia harus pake spreadsheet google drivenya. Nanti ada tu sebelah kiri tulisan create abis itu di optionnya
pilih spreadsheet.
Kelana : “Udah kakak aja laa yang buat, si Iain gak tau tu mungkin.”
Elan :
“Ah malas, weekly sama monthly ku aja belum siap-siap.”
Kelana : “Iya yakan, si Iain gak tau kok. Biar aja lah dulu situ kak, let him find out
himself.” Data 8, The first speaker use English because she knows that the second
speaker has ability to speak English, so she knows that the second speaker would undertand the term in English.
c. Reiteration 5 times : 3
When a bilingual wants to clarify hisher speech, he would try to find another word that has similar meaning through switching or mixing their codes in order to
send the message to the listener. For example:
Data 11
Elan :
“kak, Monalisa sama Fahri itu udah jadi join?”
Universitas Sumatera Utara
58 Melon :
“Udah, tapi orang itu minta trial class dulu. Aku belum bilang Iain.
semalam orang itu join
LA dulu.” Elan
:
“oo nnti bilang aja pas briefing. Jangan ke teachernya langsung kak, kena
lagi kita nanti.” Melon :
“iya tadi aku udah bilang Kelana, biar aja laa dia aja yang ikut briefing.”
Elan :
“Dia mau trial class apa rupanya kak?”
Melon : “Boston. Masalahnya kan Boston isinya college students semua. Orang itu
mau sama yang pekerja - pekerja juga.”
Elan :
“Yauda stay aja laa di LA.” Melon :
“Schedule orang itu yang masalah, ahh pening lah aku liatny. Banyak kali maunya.”
Elan :
“udah bayar course fee kak?” Melon :
“Monalisa did, Fahri said would pay after Boston.” Elan
: “Yauda laa kita bilang aja dulu sama Iain, Kan dia juga yang decide juga
nanti.” In the example above, the speaker said sibling to clarify the subject that she
mentioned before. She meant that they are brothers. She did that, because she knows that the other sample would understand what she meant.
d. Quotation 1 Time : 1 Data 5