CODE-SWITCHING IN LOVE STORY PLAYLIST BY IT’S ME BCL YOUTUBE CHANNEL

Abstract

The research investigates the use of code-switching in love story playlist on BCL YouTube Channel. The research is aimed finding the information on the types of code-switching and the reasons of the use of code-switching found in the utterances. The video was hosted by Daniel Mananta and the guest star was Bunga Citra Lestari. The research applies descriptive qualitative approach. The data collected from the video containing the utterances made by the two speakers. The transcribed utterances as the data were analyzed by employing Hoffmann‟s theory of code-switching (1991) for the research objectives. The result of research show the type of code-switching in the video, namely; intra-sentential code-switching, inter-sentential code-switching, establishing continuity switches, emblematic switching and the last type, involving a change of pronunciation. And show also the reason of the two speakers of code-switching namely; a particular topic, interjection, the speakers being emphatic about something, repetition use for clarification, and expressing the identity of their group. It is the types of code switching are found in the utterances of the two above speakers‟ conversation, and the reasons why they used code-switching are found in the utterances.