ANALYSING THE MANIFESTATION OF CODE-SWITCHING AND CODE-MIXING IN THE WATTPAD STORY “NOWHERE” BY PINKISHDELIGHT

Abstract

Modernisation and globalization bring chances for people to interact with other people from different backgrounds, demographic, cultural, social, and language differences. As a result, more people are considered bilingual. Common occurrences observed from people with two or multi-language capabilities are the production of code-switching and code-mixing during their oral communication act. This phenomenon appears not only in actual everyday speech but has been represented in written literary works. This study examines the production of code-switching and code-mixing in a Wattpad story entitled “Nowhere”. It also tries to determine the possible reasons for the production through the context provided in the Wattpad. The examined data is analysed qualitatively to see the types and the reasons for switching the languages. The result is expected to provide an illustration on the use of code-switching and code-mixing in a literary work and how it may be similar or different from the production of code-switching and code-mixing in a natural setting during oral communication