Indonesian – English Code Switching By The Comics In Stand Up Comedy Indonesia Season 8 On Kompas Tv

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.