An Analysis of Code Switching in the Novel Miss Pesimis By Alia Zalea.

Key Words: Language, Code switching, Novel. Language is a system of conventional signal used for communication by a whole community. Language as means of communication is very important for human being. They use language not only to talk to one and another but also to do any activities such as: writing letter, reading book, listening to the radio and soon. There are many function of language. With language we can talk about knowledge, information, to convey message, feeling, thought and so on. So, it is clear that in all aspects in human lives language will be always used. As Fishman said that almost in all of activities, language is used both in spoken and written form. One kind of language used in written form is literary work. In Indonesia literary work that much influenced by a foreign language is a novel. Because of modernization and growth of technology, many Indonesian are able to use more than one language in their communication. Finally they do code switching in their activities, like in the writing of novels. The problem of the research: (1) What are the types of code switching found in the Novel Miss pesimis by Alia Zalea? (2) What are the reasons why the characters in the Novel Miss pesimis switch from Bahasa Indonesia into English or the other way around? The purposes of research: (1) To find out the type of code switching used by the characters in the dialogues in the Novel Miss pesimis, (2) To find out the reasons why the characters in the Novel Miss pesimis switch their language from Bahasa Indonesia into English or the other way around. The research design of this study was library study with qualitative approach. It is because all the data are in the form of words. There was only one kind of sources of data in this research, that was, the dialogue spoken by the characters in the Novel Miss pesimis by Alia Zalea. The data collection method used was documentation. The research findings show: (1) The type of Code switching found in the novel Miss pesimis are: Intra-sentential switching, Intersentential switching, emblematic, establishing continuity with the previous speaker And the last type, Involving a change pronunciation),(2) The reason why the character do code switching in their dialogue found in the novel Miss pesimis are: characters switch their dialogues because of expressing their group identity, the characters being empatic about something, Interjection code switching, the characters used code switching because of talking about particular topic, repetition use for clarifications,and the last the characters use code switching because of their intention of clarifying the speech content for interlocutor. x This research suggest to student to know more about sociolinguistic aspect the use of (code switching) in order to make their knowledge about English getting increase. It is also expected that the future researchers can develop this research by including all related aspects of code switching in different dimension