EXPLORING TYPES OF CODE-MIXING USED IN GITA WIRJAWAN’S YOUTUBE CHANNEL

Abstract

Code mixing happens in daily life when speaker with bilingual background often mix their code from one code to another in their utterance. The purpose of this study is to analyze the types of Indonesian-English code mixing found in Gita Wirjawan YouTube Channel podcast entitled “Maudy Ayunda: Kartini Modern Berani Tantang Status Quo”. This study performs qualitative descriptive approach in analyzing the data. This study employed theory proposed by Hoffman (1991) as the primary theory in classifying the data. According to Hoffman (1991) there are three types of code mixing intra-sentential code mixing, intra-lexical code mixing, and involving a change of pronunciation. This study found two types of code mixing in this podcast, there are intra-sentential and intra-lexical code mixing. The findings of the data analysis were presented formally and informally. There were 136 code mixing data found in the podcast. This includes intra-sentential code mixing with 116 data and intra-lexical code mixing with 20 data. The most common type of code mixing used in this podcast was intra-sentential code mixing.