Code Switching in Swing Kids Drama Musical Film (Sociolinguistic Analysis)

The most important component in communication is language. Therefore, many people in the world study languages. Code switching is one way of applying the use of language in everyday life in sociolinguistic studies. Therefore, researchers took research on code switching which wereoften used by the community to make it easier to communicate with other people. This research the researcher takethe codeswitching in the Swing Kids drama musical film. The purpose of this study are: (1)to determine the types of code switching used by the first female characterin the Swing Kids film. (2)To find the reasons thatthe main female character in the film uses code switching. This research uses Code Switching theory by Hoffmann.This research is qualitative research. The data collectionsused documentationtechniques, and descriptive techniquesused to describe and analyze the data. The data of this research are texts that contain Code Switching which is used by the first female characterin the dialogue film Swing Kids. The results of this study show that the firstfemale characterin this film uses three types of code switchingin the dialogue film, 1.Tag switching,2.inter-sentential switching and3.intra-sentential switching. From 7 reasons forusingcode switching, there are only five categories used in the dialogue film,1.taking about particular topics, 2.being emphatic about something, 3. repetition used for clarification, 4. interjection and 5.expressing identity