CODE SWITCHING IN RADIO BROADCASTING IN AN EFL CONTEXT

Alvi Chairiah, Yuliana Natsir, Yunisrina Qismullah Yusuf

Abstract


This study analyzes the phenomenon of code-switching in a radio broadcasting used by the announcers at Three FM Radio, Banda Aceh, Indonesia. We applied a descriptive qualitative method to gain and analyzed the data. We recorded the speech utterances of two announcers using a USB that were directly connected to LG MDD64 Audio Player as the recording device. Later, the recordings were transcribed. Afterwards, we analyzed the code switching that occurred in the data and classified them into six functions of code switching as proposed by Appel and Musyken (1987). The results show that the most function used was metalinguistic, followed by referential function, directive function, phatic function, expressive function, and finally poetic function as the least. In the radio broadcasting of an EFL context, the choice of words and the expression of thoughts are essential to be used in the intelligible manner of their listeners because the utterances are the only source of their understanding.


Keywords


code switching; broadcasting; functions; Indonesian-English; bilingualism

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