CODE SWITCHING USED IN VLOG BY INDONESIAN YOUTUBER FATHIA IZZATI

Abstract

This study was conducted to examine the types and reasons for Fathia Izzati to do code switching on her Vlogs in Youtube Channel. The research used theory by Romaine (1995) to examine the types of code switching i.e. intra-sentential, inter-sentential, and tag switching and used Hoffman (1992) to analyse the reasons of code switching. The data have been gathered from Fathia Izzati Youtube Channel. Some methods in collected the data such as downloaded and watch the video, then transcribed the utterences. The data was analysed by following steps: identified, selected, categorized, and formed the conclusions. There are two conclusion of this study (1) There are 65 code switching found on those three videos. These code switching are divided into three types 38 utterance intra-sentential code switching, 25 utterances become inter sentential code switching, and 2 utterances  belong to tag switching, (2) Reasons for the speakers used code switching also investigated in this research. There were 7 reasons found, the dominant reason is about talking particular topic. The study also recommended that the sample of the texts analyzed should be more varied in order to know various types of code switching and the pattern that can be predict.