Code Switching Used by Indonesian Celebrities in Social Media

People who are capable of speaking and writing two languages well arecalled "bilingual", they commonly switch a language to another in their communication, that is code switching. This study focuses on analysing codeswitching used by Indonesian Celebrities in Social Media, using theory of code switching proposed by Romaine in Susanto (2008) and Hoffman (1992).The aims of this research are 1). to describe and analyzes the types of codeswitching and 2). To find the most dominant type of them in Social-Media. This study investigates code switching used in Social Media. The objectives of this study are to find out types and the most dominant type of code switching used by Indonesian Celebrities in Social Media. This study uses descriptive qualitative approach. The data are collected from the utterances of Maudy Ayunda and Boy William as Indonesian Celebrities which are analyzed by using Romaine in Susanto (2008) and Hoffman (1992) theory oncode switching. It is found that from three videos on social media, 20 data are found and classified into three types of code switching. There are 7 data of inter-sentential of code switching and 12 intra-sentential, and 1 of tag switching. Key words: sociolinguistics, code switching, Social-Medi