Institutional Repository | Satya Wacana Christian University: Typology of Code-Mixing in EFL Learners' Facebook Chatting Transcripts

Typology of Code-mixing in EFL Learners’ Facebook Chatting Transcripts
Ruth Victoria Ima Yulianingsih
ABSTRACT
The existence of Facebook as a social media networking on the internet
raised up a new phenomenon toward the language use in a conversation
called Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC). CMC refers to
communication produced when humans interact with one another using
computers (Herring, 2001). Language in CMC is treated as half-talking
and half-writing since it shared some similarities of the both features.
This condition then leads into the occurrence of spoken discourse
phenomenon in CMC, which was called as code-mixing. Code-mixing
refers to “all cases where lexical items and grammatical features from
two languages appear in one sentence,” (Muysken, 2000, p. 1). This
study was aimed to find out the types of code-mixing on Facebook
chatting transcripts of 10 English Department students batch 2011 from
Satya Wacana Christian University, Salatiga, Indonesia. The data
collected were analyzed by using the typology of code-mixing
framework as proposed by Muysken (2000). Findings showed that all of
the typology of code-mixing such as: insertion, alternation, and
congruent lexicalization were all found in the participants’ chatting
scripts. From 71 instances analyzed, 60 instances (84.50%)

corresponded as insertion, 9 instances (12.68%) were categorized as
alternation, and 2 instances (2.82%) were classified as congruent
lexicalization.
Keywords: Computer-Mediated Communication
switching, code-mixing, typology of code-mixing.

(CMC),

code-