THE ANALYSIS OF CODE-SWITCHING IN THE NOVEL EAT, PRAY, LOVE BY ELIZABETH GILBERTH

SIRNIAWATI 58430504 : THE ANALYSIS OF CODE-SWITCHING IN THE NOVEL EAT, PRAY, LOVE BY ELIZABETH GILBERT The majority of people read novel only for entertaining themselves. They only enjoy the story which is depicted in the novel without realizing that there is knowledge we can get from it. Novel is a picture of real life and manners, and of the time in which it was written. It can not be denied that by reading a novel we can both enjoy the story and get knowledge. It is not only entertaining us but also helping us to discover some phenomena which occur in the novel . Since people can get a lot of information by reading a novel, this research was done to discover a phenomenon which occurs in a novel. The reasearch analyze code-switching phenomenon in novel Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert. Besides enjoying the story in this novel, the researcher found the phenomena of code switching as significant. When people need to speak, they choose to speak in a particular code , and they also may decide to switch from one code to another or to mix codes sometimes in short utterances and thereby create a new code, a process which is called code-switching. In the novel Eat, Pray Love, a woman from the United States of America travels across Italy, India, and Indonesia. She speaks more than one language and there is code switching phenomena in the novel. The aims of this research are to find out the forms of code-switching, the types of code-witching, and the reasons for the use of code-switching by characters in the novel. This research was conducted through discourse analysis methodology as described in the theory of discourse analysis by Carmen Llamas et al. The researcher analyzed the data based on the theoretical framework for the discourse analysis used in the study of code-switching in the novel. The first step is gathering data, the next step is identifying the the features, after that categorizing each data according to the questions of the research, the last all the data which are selected is described in the study based on theoretical frame works. As the result of this research, the researcher found code-switching phenomenon in novel Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert. The forms of code-switching which are found in this novel are in the forms of word, phrase, and sentence. From the three types of code-switching; extra-sentential, inter-sentential , and intra-sentential; the researcher found two types in the novel which are inter-sentential and intrasentential. The reasons for the use code-switching by characters in the novel are participant role and relationship, situational factors, message-intrinsic factors, and langauge attitude, dominance, and security.