A Descriptive Study of Indonesian-Buginese Code Mixing by the Facebook Users in Bombana

Abstract

This research investigated the use of code mixing among Facebookers in Bombana. In particular, this research described the most dominant types of code mixing used by the Facebook users in Bombana and their reasons for code-mixing in Facebook. This research used descriptive qualitative method. To collect the data researcher conducted observation, interview, and documentation. The collected data were analyzed using the procedures of Miles and Huberman (1992), namely data reduction, data display, and data verification. The finding showed that there were 43 code mixing occurred on Facebook. By using Suwito's (1985) concepts, 6 types of code mixing were identified from status uploads and comments of Facebooker such as word insertion, phrase insertion, reduplication insertion, hybrid insertion, idiom or expression insertion and clause insertion. The most dominant type of code mixing used by Facebook users was word insertion and the least was idiom or expression insertion. This study also found seven causes of code mixing among Facebooker, consist of (a) bilingualism, (b) speaker and partner speaking, (c) social community, (d) situation, (e) vocabulary, (f) prestige, and (g) speaker habit.