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Reasons of Code-Mixing on BlackBerry Messenger
Tjong, Stefani Kristiana Chandra
ABSTRACT
Recently, BlackBerry Messenger has become one of popular media and instant
messaging. By using BBM, participants can express feelings and thoughts thorough
the facility of personal message (status). Code mixing, the alternation of two or more
languages, is the phenomenon that happened in social networking nowadays. The aim
of the study is to investigate reasons of using code mixing on BBM status. There were
20 BBM statuses written by 10 participants of Satya Wacana Christian University
students in English Language Education as the data. The researcher observed the
recent update to find code mixing status and directly did an interview through BBM
chatting with certain participants. Malik’s theory (1994) on 10 reasons of code mixing
was used to analyze participants’ answer in the interview. The result indicated that
code mixing can also occur in written language, especially in instant messaging. The
reasons were: habitual expression, to show identity with group, pragmatic reasons,
lack of facility, to amplify and emphasize a point, and lack of registrar competence.
There were also other findings outside the theory, such as prestige, imitating friend’s
words and games, spontaneous, and simpler sentence. In future research, the analysis
of code mixing reasons can be observed in a larger number of participants with
different gender and background. It is also suggested to do a research with other
instant messaging or social media.
Keywords: Code-mixing reasons, BlackBerry Messenger (BBM), Computer Mediated
Communication (CMC)
Tjong, Stefani Kristiana Chandra
ABSTRACT
Recently, BlackBerry Messenger has become one of popular media and instant
messaging. By using BBM, participants can express feelings and thoughts thorough
the facility of personal message (status). Code mixing, the alternation of two or more
languages, is the phenomenon that happened in social networking nowadays. The aim
of the study is to investigate reasons of using code mixing on BBM status. There were
20 BBM statuses written by 10 participants of Satya Wacana Christian University
students in English Language Education as the data. The researcher observed the
recent update to find code mixing status and directly did an interview through BBM
chatting with certain participants. Malik’s theory (1994) on 10 reasons of code mixing
was used to analyze participants’ answer in the interview. The result indicated that
code mixing can also occur in written language, especially in instant messaging. The
reasons were: habitual expression, to show identity with group, pragmatic reasons,
lack of facility, to amplify and emphasize a point, and lack of registrar competence.
There were also other findings outside the theory, such as prestige, imitating friend’s
words and games, spontaneous, and simpler sentence. In future research, the analysis
of code mixing reasons can be observed in a larger number of participants with
different gender and background. It is also suggested to do a research with other
instant messaging or social media.
Keywords: Code-mixing reasons, BlackBerry Messenger (BBM), Computer Mediated
Communication (CMC)