why the people tend to use the code switching in their conversations, and what is the functions of the code switching itself. Specifically, this study brings two
benefits for English Education students and future researchers.
1. English Education Study Program Students
This research is useful for the English Education Study Program students who are interested in learning about code-switching in depth. This
research contains the accumulation knowledge about code-switching. Hopefully, by reading this research, the students will have more understanding about the
types and possible reasons for code-switching in Indonesia.
2. Future Researchers
The author hopes that this research can give sufficient information for future code-switching researcher. This research is able to guide the future
linguistics researchers to find out the other code-switching cases or other language cases in the society.
F.
Definition of Terms
The writer would like to present some definition of terms which were used in this thesis.
1.
Code Switching According to Wardhaugh 1998:100, code switching is a strategy to use
two or more languages in the same utterances. In additional, Spolky 1998:48 says that code-switching often happen in bilingual situation. It occur between two
and more languages in the middle of conversations. This includes the variations PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
and modifications of language expression, which exist in number of forms, such as in sentences or phrases, made by the bilingual person. In this study, code
switching refers to the juxtaposition of English language and Bahasa Indonesia in the conversations which used by the artists and actors in the sequel of 99 Cahaya
di Langit Eropa movies. 2.
Movie
Perrault 2008 says that movie is the communication media that tells a story or information through motion pictures and sounds. Movie has many
functions such as entertaining, giving information, and educating the viewers. Drama, horror, action, comedy, and science-fiction are the examples of movie
genres. Based on that state, movie is the media for people to get some knowledge and take the information from what they’ve seen and heard in the
movie. Hence, a mov ie is an important thing that can open the people’s mind
and enrich their linguistic awareness from the languages which are used by the actresses and actors in the movie. Through this study, the writer want to give the
readers clearly understanding about the linguistic cases code-switching which happened in the sequel of 99 Cahaya di Langit Eropa movies.
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CHAPTER II REVIEW OF LITERATURE
