Code-Switching Analysis on Pixar’s “Coco” Movie
Keywords:
bilingualism and multilingualism, code, code-switching, movieAbstract
This research aimed to discover the types, functions, and reasons for code-switching in the Coco movie. The data were obtained after watching the movie and reading the transcript of the movie. Then from all available data, the researcher selected the data only those that have code-switching. For the types of code-switching, this research used Poplack’s (1980) theory, Koziol’s (2000) theory for functions of code-switching, and Hoffman’s (1991) theory for reasons of code-switching. The researcher found 104 code-switching in the Coco movie. The type of code-switching that was most often used was tag switching with 64 times occurrences. As for the functions of code-switching, from 14 existing functions, the Coco movie used only nine functions. The most frequently used code-switching functions were the emphasis function and designation function, with 29 occurrences. As for the reasons for using code-switching, most often used was expressing group identity with 39 occurrences.
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