Rainbow : Journal of Literature, Linguistics and Cultural Studies
Vol 10 No 1 (2021): Rainbow : Journal of Literature, Linguistics and Culture Studies

An Analysis of Code Mixing of an Australian Youtuber “Dave Jephcott” in His Instagram “Londo Kampung”

Fitria, Tira Nur (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
23 Apr 2021

Abstract

Code mixing is a phenomenon in the form of the use of elements from a particular language in one sentence or another language discourse. The objective of this research is to find out the type of code-mixing uttered by an Australian Youtuber in his Instagram “Londo Kampung”. This study uses a descriptive qualitative method. In Instagram “Londo Kampung”. It is found the mixing of various linguistic units in the grammatical system within a sentence. There are some types of insertion of code-mixing, such as in elements of word, phrase, clause, hybrid, and repetition. There 182 code mixing found in Instagram captions. In insertion of the word shows 114 data or 62.64% which consist word class of noun and adjective. In insertion of hybrid shows 36 data (19.78 %), such as in insertion suffix both in Indonesian and Javanese, also prefix both in Indonesian and Javanese. In phrase shows 14 data (7.69 %) which consist of the noun phrase and adjective phrases. In insertion of the clause shows 12 data (6.59 %), and in repetition shows 6 data (3.33 %) which consist independent clause. The most dominant type insertion of code-mixing is in the element of words. Code mixing here occurs when the speaker (Dave Jephcott) inserts an element of a foreign language (English) in an utterance when he mostly communicates in written in his first language (Javanese and Indonesian).

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