E-Link Journal Vol. 8 No. p-ISSN: 2085-1383. e-ISSN: 2621-4156 ANALYSIS OF USING CODE MIXING OF FACEBOOK POSTED BY THAI USERS Sakilah Tohheh rahimna2004@gmail. English Language Education Department. Faculty of Teacher Training and Education. Universitas Islam Lamongan ABSTRACT The study is mainly the use of code mixing between Thai and English language in social media (Faceboo. by Thai users. Code mixing is mixing two or more language and only the changing some of elements such as word and phrase in a sentence and usually happens in informal situation and mixing two language or more languages in one situation. The researcher wants to analyze the use of code mixing by Thai users on Facebook because the researcher wants to know the forms and function of using code mixing by Thai users. The techniques of collecting the data used in this research are observation and documentation. The researcher used qualitative observation because the researcher needs to observe the behaviors of using language especially in the use code mixing on Facebook. The documentation is saving and documenting the data which are taken from the observation. The objects of this study are Thai usersAo account. The result of this study shows . the forms of code mixing . the function of code mixing used on Facebook by Thai users. The conclusions of this study are the researcher found six forms of code mixing used by Thai users on Facebook. There are words insertion, phrase insertion, hybrid, repetition, idiom and clause. The researcher found seven function of using code mixing. That is, . to make the caption or status cool or intellect looking, . to update new English vocabularies to their friends, . to make the discussion or chatting interesting . to get a good relation, . to share information, . to promote a product to customer, . to give a proud feeling. Finally, the researcher hopes that this research can be useful to readers and follow up by other researchers because this research is still far from perfect and there are some other aspects that can still be studied in this research. Keywords: : Sociolinguistics, bilingualism, code mixing INTRODUCTION The among people . In other word, people consider that language is the most important factor in human life. Every important means of communication in human needs to speak by using language human life. A human cannot communicate for communicate one to another in their in any real sense without language. As a Communication and interaction communication, language has sounds, use language. Language is the main gestures, or marks that can be understood. instrument of communication. Kiat says However, that language is a social phenomenon language and dialect. So, everybody should because it as a means of communication understand each other in their society. Analysis of Using Code Mixing of Facebook Posted by Thai Users E-Link Journal Vol. 8 No. p-ISSN: 2085-1383. e-ISSN: 2621-4156 The study about the relationship The between language and society is called there are cultures, languages, and According to Wardhaugh On other hand, cultures factor not . Ausociolinguistic is dealing with the only influences a society but also influences study of the relationship between language the different language. In Thai, there are and society with goal being a better some people who can speak in two understanding of the structure of language languages called bilingual and some people who can speak more than two languages The called multilingual. Language is the most sociolinguistics is trying to discover how common way to identify a person or group. social structure can be better understood Ethnic groups regularly use language as one through the study of language, for example of their most significant identifying their how certain linguistic features on social Most ethnic groups believe that media are understood by the readers. their language is the best medium for According to Weinreich . , two or more languages will be said to be in preserving and expressing their traditions (Spolsky, 2. contact if they are used alternatively by the Language and speech community same person, when a common second lead to think the variations in the language language is learned and used by a group of used by the speakers. It is known language Whether immigrants or by virtue of is free and language has rules because the introduction of a new language to a language is a tool of life like for expressing thoughts, emotion, and feeling. To make themselves introducing second language another group understand what the speaker lexical items into conversation with fellow means they usually use mother language bilingual in their original first language. and the second language. Mixing of language is usually called code mixing. Code mixing is the use of two languages or common features. One of the social media more, or two variants of a language in a which many people used is Facebook. speech community (Chaer and Agustina. Code Facebook a social networking website where users can post conversant uses both of languages together comments, share photographs and post to increase that they change from one links to news or other interesting content on language to the other in the course of a the web, chat live, and watch short-form single utterance (Wardhaugh 1. This They can even order food on phenomenon is not just found in verbal Facebook if that is what they want to do. communication but also in non-verbal Shared content can be made publicly communication in media social. accessible, or it can be shared only among Social media is an online media a select group of friends or family, or with where the user can easily participate, share a single person. The users usually give and make contents like a blog, social caption on the photo or video. Sometimes networking, wiki, forum, and virtual world. the users use bilingual or multilingual to According to Obar. Jonathan A. Wildman, make friends interested and called code Steve . , social media are computer- In this research, the researcher mediated technologies that facilitate the shows bilingual Thai-English language on creation and sharing of information, ideas, the caption posted or comment which career interests and other forms of describe the reality of the language use expression via virtual communities and among them in which thereafter the The variety of stand-alone and language use can be categorized as code built-in social media services currently Analysis of Using Code Mixing of Facebook Posted by Thai Users E-Link Journal Vol. 8 No. p-ISSN: 2085-1383. e-ISSN: 2621-4156 RESEARCH METHOD explore a social or human problem. The This research aims to expose the research builds a complex, holistic picture, sentence that appears in social media analyzes word, reports detailed views of network especially Facebook. The kind of informants, and conducts the study in a research is Descriptive Qualitative. This natural setting. In other word, qualitative research describes how Thai users use code research is research which related with mixing in their posted on social media. human behavior that produced the data in Stewart the form of written and spoken. Descriptive qualitative research is a way to look into a Research time of this study on problem base and the quality of the data. 1st of January 2020 until 18th of April 2020 Therefore, it is not concerned to the number and time for collecting the data around four of participants but view the quality of data months starting from on 4th of October 2019 they perform. until 22th of January 2020 and the location According to Ary et al . , research design is the researcherAos plans of data is an account Facebook of researcher herself. about how to conduct the research to Research increase and also improve an understanding individual who participates in a research of some groups or phenomenon in its study or someone from whom data are And it is an important part of the Darlington and Scott . research, in the use of method by analyzing and collecting the data. According to (Creswell, 1. Authe capacity to provide full and sensitive qualitative research is an inquiry process of investigationAy. The subject of this research methodological traditions of inquiry that are Thai Facebook users who are friends of the researcher. And the researcher selected the data which are taken from the some of friends because they write their idea, feeling by using code mixing to The researcher takes and collects update status or post on social media data from social media network especially network especially Facebook. While the Facebook by Thai users. object is the use of code mixing that appears on Facebook. To will get the data, the researcher will collect the data with these following From the Facebook account of the researcher, total of friend on Observing and taking data on Facebook. Facebook are 626 people. The subject of Collecting utterance, word, and phrase this study only 32 users who use code mixing in their posted or caption. from Thai Facebook user. Identifying text which is code mixing. The data of the research are the The main instrument to obtain and statuses which are taken from Thai analyze the data in this research is the Facebook users. The data source of the research are the post expressions in the researcher collects the posted which are forms of sentence on Facebook written are taken from Thai Facebook users. friends of the researcher. The researcher Data are the research materials uses random technique. In collecting data, namely the finished material . s opposed to the researcher employed observation and raw material. , which exist for the selection The observation is seeking the data which contain code mixing material. Sudarjo in Mahsun . The The data in this study are sentence that contain documentation is saving and documenting a code-mixing in the Thai and English . aw language on Facebook. Analysis of Using Code Mixing of Facebook Posted by Thai Users E-Link Journal Vol. 8 No. p-ISSN: 2085-1383. e-ISSN: 2621-4156 The techniques of data analysis used in this research are : Making conclusion as the result of analysis and findings. Analyzing the data based on the forms, the form and the functions according to RESULT AND DISCUSSION the theory code mixing base on The researcher makes a table of the result SowetoAos theory. of code mixing to conclude ore total from Interpreting the forms, and functions of all the data that the researcher found. consists of word insertion, phrase insertion, functions of the code mixing used, the hybrid, repetition, idiom and clause. From researcher bases only on the context of the data that the researcher found on the past, the time of the post and the Facebook. It is revealed that it consists of background of the account users from noun, verb, and adjective. The researcher their post. No confirmation is done to the takes code mixing word from all of the data, account users, neither written nor and summary the result of word insertion is in Table 4. 1 as follows: Table 4. 1: The Result of Word Insertion No. Word Insertion Noun AEuOo A Ui AA Oo CuAEOo uNiAi UAO CuEu U Ci U CuAA EU U UAOA U Teacher AiN U Verb Result Total / English Translation Boss Caption Card Event Location Lottery Mode Profile Post Program Pasta Review Size Story Series Teacher Thanks ouNE O UO EuU AoiA Block Charge Live Guarantee Adjective AuuA O Happy researcher takes code mixing word all of The data of phrase insertion that the data, and the summary result of phrase the researcher found on Facebook consists insertion is in Table 4. 2 as follows: of noun phrase and verb phrase. The Analysis of Using Code Mixing of Facebook Posted by Thai Users E-Link Journal Vol. 8 No. p-ISSN: 2085-1383. e-ISSN: 2621-4156 Table 4. 2: The Result of Phrase Insertion Phrase insertion Noun Phrase Aooi UAo AE OAooUoAO E UAOOAo AuCu iC O AiA oAEoE Result Total / English Translation Brand-name Cake brownie Time machine Hello duo Add Facebook Big bike Happy holiday Mid-term Happy holiday iA Verb Phrase Shut down AONEo Shut down Check-in summary of the result of hybrid is in Table 4. From all the data, the researcher form as follows: found only one hybrid form posted. The researcher takes code mixing word all, and the No. Table 4. 3: The Result of Hybrid Result Total / English Translation Hybrid Credit Card oiAEii . at credi. Hybrid and the summary result of repetition is From all the data, the researcher shown Table 4. 4 as follows: found of only one post of repetition form. The researcher takes code mixing word all. No. Table 4. 4: The Result of Repetition Repetition Result Total / English Translation Repetition OuI . hill-chil. Chill-chill the summary of the result of idiom is From all the data, the researcher displayed in the following Table 4. found only one post of idiom form. The researcher takes code mixing word all, and No. Table 4. 5: The Result of Idiom Idiom Result Total / English Translation Idiom Happy birth day to Happy birth day to me The researcher takes code mixing clause. From all the data, the researcher and the summary result of clause is given in found clause. It consists two type there are Table 4. 6 below. independent clause and dependent clause. Table 4. 6: The Result of Clause No. Clause Clause Done presentation IER Auu Result total / English Done presentation IER Love you all From the result all forms in the the data make the researcher knows how far table above, the form of words mostly Thai Thai users use code mixing of word, code users use is noun words. And the least mixing of phrase, hybrid, repetition, idiom forms Thai users use is hybrid. So, from all and clause on Facebook. Table 4. 7: The Result of Forms of Code Mixing No. Forms Result Total Code Mixing in The Form Words Code Mixing in The Form Phrases Code Mixing in The Form Hybrid Code Mixing in The Form Repetition Code Mixing in The Form Idiom Analysis of Using Code Mixing of Facebook Posted by Thai Users E-Link Journal Vol. 8 No. p-ISSN: 2085-1383. e-ISSN: 2621-4156 Code Mixing in The Form Clause Total Table. The Result of Social Functions of Using Code Mixing on Facebook by Thai Users To share To make To update To get a To make To give Users a product or status to their cool or proud feeling Data 1 Data 2 Data 3 Data 4 Data 5 Data 6 Data 7 Use for example Data 8 Data 9 Data 10 Data 11 Data 12 Data 13 Data 14 Data 15 Data 16 Data 17 Data 18 Data 19 Data 20 Data 21 Data 22 Data 23 Data 24 Data 25 Use for example Data 26 Data 27 Data 28 Data 29 Data 30 Data 31 Data 32 Data 33 Data 34 Data 35 Data 36 Data 37 Data 38 Data 39 CONCLUSION chatting interesting, . to give a proud According to result and discussion in chapter IV, the researcher concluded that Regarding to this topic of the Thai users basically used Thai language and research and based on the findings there are mixed it with English language in social some suggestions which can be offered by It was found that the kinds of code the researcher. The researcher suggests to mixing mostly used is word insertions the next researcher who are conducting in because it is the easiest kind if it is the same field to analyzed code mixing in compared to other kinds. There were 21 the form of song lyric, movie, magazine, . wenty-on. novel, advertisement and other field of Firstly, nouns 17 words, verbs 4 words, adjective 1 word. Secondly 10 code Then, it is also suggested that the mixing of phrase insertion, divided to noun phrase 8 phrases, verb phrase 2 phrases, 1 documentations but also interview for data of hybrid, 1 of repetition, 1 of idiom, and collection technique to make the data more the last 2 clauses. Furthermore, several functions Hopefully, this study is able to be were used by the user in their posts. They a reference for the following research or were: . to share information, . to make sociolinguistics to develop more on this the caption or status cool or intellect study, particularly for student of Islamic looking, . to update new English University of Lamongan. vocabularies to their friends, . to promote a product to customer, . to get a good relation, . to make the discussion or Analysis of Using Code Mixing of Facebook Posted by Thai Users REFERENCES