Sunday, September 2, 2007

Code Mixing

In daily life, people sometimes use two languistic codes(including dialects, register, jargon, or other varieties of language)together in one utterance. This phenomenon is called codw mixing. The use of code mixing is often influenced by social factors such as situation, relationship between the speakers and the listeners, age, and so on. Javanese people (people living in Java island, especially central Java), for example like to mix Javanese language (their regional language) when they speak Indonesian language (the national language). They do so perhaps because they want to show the politeness, which they cannot find in Indonesian language. Of course there are other purposes of using code mixing depending on what the speakers want to show.

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