
Sri (2014), entitled “Code Mixing Used in Sby’s Political Speeches Period 2009 - 2014” The research discussed about language forms were code-mixed in Sby’s Political Speeches of the period 2009 - 2014, and the factors that cause those codes mixing.īased on the explanations above, the writer is interested in conducting the research entitled “The Analysis of Code-mixing Used in Novel ‘5cm’ Written by Donny Dhirgantoro”. The writer conducts the further research about code-mixing because the writer is inspired previous research that was conducted by Nuryanto.
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The phenomenon of code mixing itself has become an interesting topic to be discussed, especially in the novel ‘5 cm’ written by Donny Dhirgantoro. This kind of situation may be called code mixing. The characters in this novel often mix their Indonesia language with English. In this case, the novel ‘5 cm’ is a novel which includes the dialogues containing English.

According to Abrams (1933) as cited by Wahdani (2010), “The novel involves events, characters, and what the characters say and do” (p. A novel is an extended fictional prose narrative focusing on a few primary characters but often involving scores of secondary characters. One kind of Indonesian literary book that is much influenced by English is the novel. Since then, Indonesian literary books have also been influenced by English that we often see books that contain English. Since the coming of foreigners who use English in their communication, Indonesian people become able to use English and begin to teach/spread it to other Indonesian people. Literary books in Indonesia have been developed since many years ago, both in their quantity and their quality. The phenomenon of code mixing can be found in literary books in Indonesia like as novel. People uses code-mixing not only in oral form, but also in writing such as novel, short story, poetry, etc. It means code-mixing is insertion lexical items and grammatical features of one language within another language in one sentence without any force and change the topic. Meanwhile, Nababan, P.W.J (1986) as cited by Udoro, Bagus (2008), “Code-mixing happens when people mix two languages (or more) languages in such speech act or discourse without any force to do mixing codes” (p. According to Muysken (2000), “Code mixing is the use of lexical items and grammatical features between two languages that appear in one sentence” (p. To a bilingual or multilingual, although choosing a code is one of the routines, the skill in deciding which code should be chosen still needs developing. In a bilingual or multilingual society, it is normal for the people to be in a situation where a choice between two or more codes has to be made. People can speak using two or more languages in a time. People develop their knowledge and ability in second language.

Nowadays, people do not only speak in one language but also mix their language.


It means possible for the bilingual or multilingual people use more than one code or language in communication. According to Bhatia, (2009), “Bilingualism and multilingualism phenomena are devoted to the study of production, processing, and comprehension of two (and more than two) languages, respectively” (p. Bilingualism or multilingualism is a major fact of life in the world today.
