AN ANALYSIS OF CODE MIXING USED IN COLUMN WRITING AND FEATURE WRITING OF MANADO POST NEWSPAPER

Abstrak

Language is a tool of communication used by people to transfer what they have in their mind to others. We can see people talk to friends, associates, between wife and husband, lovers, teacher to pupils, parents to children face to face or over telephone, etc. This is in line with the statement that language is a system of communication consisting of sounds, words and grammar used by the people of particular country or profession. This research used the theory of Wardhaugh (1986:103) stated that code mixing is two languages use together by the conversant to extent that they change from one language into another the course of a single utterance It means that code mixing occur when pieces of one language are used the speaker is basically using another. The language pieces taken from another are often words. But they can also be phrases or larger units. The data were analyzed according to steps of qualitative research. The writer followed the prosedures of qualitative analysis suggested by Bogdan and Biklen (1992:1). Based on the result of the discussion it can be concluded that Newspaper is very popular tool of information that many people can read as well as write information. It was found that there were twenty-four English words namely Delivery, Miscommunication, Warning, Password, Handle,Monitoring, Coaching, Polling, Spirit, Tour, Super, Launching, Gathering, Posting, Blunder, Lighting, Smart, Fair, Schedule, Budgeting, Image, Booking, Basic, Surplus used as code mixing in Manado Post Newspaper especially edition 8434, 8484,8387, and 8388. Besides that, there were six-teen English phrases such as Free design, Blacklist, Big match, Top scorer, Landfill, Offside, Headline, Go public, Stakeholders, Moneypolitic, Update, Handphone, Dropout, Check out, The best, Workshop. Keywords: Manado Post, Sociolinguistics, Mixing code.