Code Switching Analysis in The Travel Blog, The Naked Traveler

Language is significant methods for correspondence. It is utilized to impart and to offer data to other people. There are numerous dialects on the planet that individuals can pick their cooperation. Picking one legitimate language in correspondence is critical to abstain from misconception. Individuals need to pick a specific language as well as choose to change starting with one then onto the next. The change from one language to the next one called as code switching. Code switching may happened in numerous industry. One of them is the travel industry. Thus, this research is design to identify the types of code switching, to analyze the function of the code switching and to find out the factors led the blogger code-switch. One of them is tourism area. sales assistants code-switch. The data was taken from the travel blog that was written in The Naked Traveler blog. The data was collected through observation method through note taking techniques. The travel blog was read and the expressions represent the use of code switching were noted. After the data collected, they were analyzed. Descriptive qualitative method was used to analyze the data. The analysis was conducted through several steps. First, the theory proposed by Poplack (1989) was used to classify the types of code switching produced The Naked Traveler blog. Furthermore, the theory of the function of code switching developed by Apple and Muysken (1987:118-120) was used to analyzed the function of code switching