CODE SWITCHING IN TWITTER OF ALEXANDER THIAN :A SYNTACTIC ANALYSIS

This thesis analyses the types, the use and the reasons why Code switching are
used in Alexander Thians on his tweets. This study used Poplack and Hoffmans
theory in order to answer the problems and used a descriptive qualitative method
to analyse. There are three types in Poplack theory and seven reasons why in
Hoffman theory. The source of data is Twitter and there are 50 tweets found as the
data. Those tweets in Alexander Thians Twitter were examined to categorize
them into distinct categories. This study found that Alexander Thian uses three
types of Code switching in his twitter account, namely tag-switching (4%), intersentential
switching (42%), and intra-sentential switching (54%). While for the
reasons, the Code switching were mostly used in talking about particular topic
twenty-six tweets (52%), quoting somebody else six tweets (12%), being
emphatic about something ten tweets (20%), interjection four tweets (8%),
intention of clarifying the speech content two tweets (4%), and expressing group
identity two tweets (4%).