CODE SWITCHING AND SOCIAL IDENTITY IN DIGITAL ERA

Istiqamah Ardila

Abstract


The development of language usage in this digital era affects millennial generation to become bilingual and multilingual. The phenomenon of switching their utterances in a conversation occurs in both offline and online setting. When they use languages, they also do so as individuals with social history. It indirectly shows their social identity which can be happened subconsciously or consciously signifying that they belong to certain identity in society. This paper aims to explain the connection between code switching and social identity. It shows that the three types of code-switching can appear in showing someone's identity both online and offline communication.

Keywords: code switching, social identity, bilingual, multilingual


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