Deffinition Song Essay

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This study deals with code switching, which can be found in song lyrics. The study investigates the reasons and the kinds of code switching the composers use in their song lyrics. This research is descriptive qualitative and data gathered by doing library research. The data were collected from February 4th up to May 25th 2008. There are 50 song lyrics as a population. Because of the data are less then 100, so the writer used all the data as a sample or called as total sample. The data were taken from the internet. And the findings in this research are (1) there are two reasons why composers use code switching, they are; firstly because the composers want to increase the pride and second the composers also could not find the equivalent of translation to the certain words (2) and there are three kinds of code switching that the composers use in song lyric they are; Situational code switching, Conversational code switching and the Tag switching ABSTRACT Safitri, Ifa Dewi. 2008. Code Switching in Indonesian Pop Songs. S-1 Thesis, English Department, State University of Malang. Advisors: Dr. Arwijati Wahyudi, M.Pd. Key words: Code switching, Indonesian pop song lyrics This study aims at describing code switching found in Indonesian pop songs composed by some Indonesian pop song composers. There are two research problems in this study, namely: what types of code switching are found in Indonesian pop song composed by Indonesian pop song composers and what are the reasons why the composers switch the language in their songs. This study is expected to give some useful contributions to the theory of Sociolinguistics, particularly the theory of code switching. The findings of this study are expected to give some useful insights to English Department students in order to get better understanding of the use of code switching by Indonesian pop song composers. The

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