LANGUAGE OF INSTANT MESSAGE IN COMMUNICATION

Instant messaging {IM) as one of the internet services have become a needs and lifestyle of
online communication, especially among teenagers and young adults. The main reasons of
1M use are the practical, efficient and entertain function. While 1M is commonly thought of
as a written version of informal speech that affect the user language development, there has.
been little empirical investigation of its linguistic characteristics, limited on the linguistics
scaffolding (how the overall conversations were conducted), lexical issues ( issue relating to
specific words) and semantics code mixing. This study examines three points about the 1M
communication, they are: (I) to find out the type of language use in lM communication, (2)
to find the type of code mixing applied in 1M communication (3) to find out the reason of the
business people apply the IM communication. This paper reports on an analysis studies of
the 1M behavior of a worker named Rustina, a multilinguals worker of a company that serves
the export and local market, in influence to her culture and language as this reseach
conducted in ethography design that all the data taken will also observe to her socio-cultural
background. IM message history, transcript, interview, and questionnaire data to the
background of the subject indicate that 1M language use (I) Simplification and affectiveness
of the communication plays the important part in 1M communication since the most quantity
used is one word only with 8 to 60 words/minute transmittion (2) The insertion type of the
code mixing appear mostly in 1M conversation. (3) The linguistics characteristics used ofiM
are uncommon or unstandadized with certain language of the multilinguals, they mix the
language that suitable with them. The paper concludes by suggesting that lM can be seen as a
new style of discourse that create a new language and new group of socieaty with bas no
standarization for all user of different group The mixing of the languages known is
considered change (absorb) the main rules or assumptions about ones spoken and written
language.
(i)