A Sociolinguistic Perspective on the Indonesian-English Code Mixing Used by Students

Abstract

This research aims to know the type of code mixing and the factors for code-mixing used by students at Ma’had Al–Jami’ah UINFAS Bengkulu. The research approach used to analyze the data is a descriptive qualitative approach. As the theory used. The researcher described, based on the theory of Muysken (2002), how to analyze the types of code mixing and the theory of Bhatia and Ritchie (2004) to analyze the factors of code mixing. The result of this study shows that five kinds of code mixing used by students, namely insertion, which consists of 37 data, alternation consists of 49 data, and congruent lexicalization consists of 7 data. Several reasons for using code mixing are participant roles and relationships, situational factors, message-intrinsic factors, linguistic attitude, dominance, and security. The other reasons are the regulation in Ma’had, the situation, and the lack of vocabulary.