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%).