ABSTRACT

Name : Yurintan Elshadika
Reg. No. : 180203052
Faculty : Fakultas Tarbiyah dan Keguruan
Major : Department of English Language Education
Thesis working Title : An Analysis of Code Mixing Used in ‘Catch Me Up!’ Newsletter
Supervisor : Dr. Muhammad Nasir, M. Hum.
Keywords : Code Mixing, Newsletter

This research investigates the use of code mixing in Catch Me Up! Newsletter, a digital publication distributed periodically via email, providing updates, news, and valuable content to a subscribed audience every morning. The aim of this study to find out types of code mixing and analyze its functions in Catch Me Up! Newsletter. This study applied descriptive qualitative method. To explore types and functions of code mixing in its newsletter, this research focused on the email newsletter edition published on the April 1st, 2024 as the primary data that contain of four news. The analysis is based on two classification framework applied by Hoffman (1991) and Gumpers (1983). The result showed that from 110 data, the three types Hoffman’s code mixing existed such as intra-sentential (79%), intra-lexical (6,4%), and involving change of pronunciation (14,6%). While Gumpers’s code mixing existed four from five functions such as repetition (2,4%), interjection (26,8%), specification for opponents (48,8%), element qualifying message content (22%), and no data found in quote function. So, the study concludes that code mixing in Catch Me Up! Newsletter is predominantly used for specifying opponents and interjections, with intra-sentential code mixing being the most prevalent type.