Abstract:
This research investigates the phenomena of using code switching in stand up
comedy. The objectives of this study are to find out the type and function of code
switching used by the comics in stand up comedy Indonesia season 8. Stand up
comedy show is a program that entertains the audiences by making a short joke. In
this program, the comics often do code switching at least English-Indonesian (or
versa) code switching.The research was conducted by using descriptive qualitative
method because the data of this research are in the form of words, phrases, lines,
and those are not in the form of numbers and statistics. The data are gained by
compiling and examining the audio visual data to observe the phenomena. It is done
by several techniques such as browsing and downloading. The video was
downloaded via Youtube. It recorded the entire performances of the comics. There
are 18 videos totally. The next step is transcribing that is done by downloading
audio visual data watched and than transcribed into written form. The result of the
study shows that there are some reasons why the comics use code switching. The
comics do code switching because there are some English terms in stand up comedy
which needed to be translated into Indonesian. The comics do code switching is to
make the audiences understand about the jokes which are performed. The researcher
hopes this research can give contributions to the readers, especially the students
who are interested in doing code switching research. Furthermore, the researcher
hopes this research can be one of the references to make other researchers about
code switching conducted with different objects or researches about some other
aspects of Sociolinguistics.
