A study on the code switching as demonstrated by the basketball players in evergreen basketball club Surabaya

This study analyzed the code switching as demonstrated by the basketball players in Evergreen basketball club Surabaya. The objectives of this study are to find out what languages are mainly code s\vitched and the player's reasons to do it. This study is a qualitative research, meaning that the writer himself observed the conversations and collect the data needed. Besides, this study is a participant observation, meaning that the writer got involved as a participant in this study. In collecting the data, the writer either recorded the conversations or wrote them manually. There are four conversations which are analysed under the parameters namely setting, participant and topic. The data analysis shows the languages which were mostly code swithed are Javanese to Standard Indonesian, Standard Indonesian to Javanese, Javanese to Non Standard Indonesian, Non Standard Indonesian to Standard Indonesian and Non Standard Indonesian to Javanese. The basketball players' main reasons in switching from one code to another code during their conversations are their purpose to maintain a smooth conversation, their need to express group identity and solidarity, their habit and preference, their intention to quote and their purpose of referring to a concept in another language which has no equivalent term in the language being spoken