@thesis{thesis, author={LUPIANA FERI}, title ={THE CODES SWITCHED IN THE COMMENTS OF “AKU PGN GEMUK” STATUS OF FACEBOOK ACCOUNT}, year={2011}, url={http://eprints.unisbank.ac.id/id/eprint/768/}, abstract={The thesis is entitled The Codes Switched in the Comments of ?aku pgn gemuk? Status of Language Student?s Facebook Account. The writer chose the title because code- switching is an interesting topic to be discussed and there are a lot of code- switchings found in the comments of status in facebook account. This thesis has two objectives. First, it is aimed at finding out the types of code- switching in the comments of ?aku pgn gemuk? status. Second, it is aimed at explaining the function of code- switching which is indicated in comments of ?aku pgn gemuk? status. Documentation method was used to collect the data. All of code-switchings found in ?aku pgn gemuk? status were taken to be the data. In finding out the phenomena of code- switching, the writer copied the comments of ?aku pgn gemuk? status. In analyzing the data, the writer applied descriptive qualitative technique. Nineteen code- switchings were found in selected data. The types of code- switching mostly found is intra- sentential code- switching (68,42%) which consists of nine code- mixing phenomena and four transfer phenomena, and inter-sentential code- switching (31,58%) Frequently, code-switching is used to reiterate the point (47,38%), to communicate more effectively (21,05%), to ease communication (21,05%) and to capture the attention (emotional) (10,52%).} }