A Study on Code Mixings Used by Members of Scouting at UIIS Malang

ABSTRACT

Language has a lot of functions that make life enjoyable. There are a lot of languages owned by human beings in this world.. Communication is used in the process of sending and receiving information, signals or message by talking, gesturing or writing. Language is one of the most important things in communication. With language people interact and express their ideas, emotion as well as desire to each other. Based on the phenomenon above this study entitled A study on Code Mixings Used by Members of Scouting at UIIS Malang is pertinent to do. This study used a descriptive qualitative research in which the data were presented descriptively about the kinds and the reasons why members of scouting used code mixing.

Scouting members becomes the object of this study. It is because most of the members of scouting came from different cultures, backgrounds and educations, and they often mix their language to another language in their daily communication.

The result of the study shows that there are two kinds of code mixing namely inner code mixing and outer code mixing. There are three from five forms of code mixing used by members of scouting at UIIS Malang. They are code mixing in the form of words, code mixing in the form of phrases, and code mixing in the form of repetition word. The code mixing in communication among the members of scouting at UIIS Malang was influenced by some factors: they wanted to be familiar, they wanted to show their level of education, different cultures based on their language, and words which are often used in another language.

Based on the analysis, the researcher has some suggestions to other researchers to conduct deeper study on other code mixing. Finally, may this research be useful for everyone who needs it.