CODESWITCHING AMONG THE SASAK COMMUNITY AT KUTA CENTRAL LOMBOK

CHAPTER V

CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION

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5.1.Conclusions

Language is an important element in daily life; it can be in speech and learning process. People always use the language in their daily life and their communications with others regardless of personal interests. In addition, language is a human need that is absolute, because language is a vehicle for communication between humans.

Language as a social phenomenon in its usage is not only determined by linguistic factors, but also by non-linguistic factors, for example social and situational factors. The social factors that the usages of language are social status, education level, age, economic level, gender and so on. The situational factor influence language, and to whom someone converses. Language contact occurs in social situation contact; as such the situation at the time of someone learns second language in society.  

The Situation of language usage varies, starting from the atmosphere of conversation in the family, between families, between neighbors, the interaction of buying and selling in the market, and interactions in tourism industry area by local people (community) with tourists (guests). It does can be in form of bilingual or multilingual language usage as occurred among the Sasak community at Kuta, Central Lombok. Because the situation can triggers of language mixes by them, as such their first language into other languages they mastered in order to codeswitching occurs.

  Codeswitching occurs when a language mix by speakers with each other because the environment situations and language contact. Besides that, it occurs because situation and condition is enabling to use in this place. They often use codeswitching in daily interaction with their and outside community.

Based on the data gathered, found that there are types of code switching events that occurred among the Sasak community at Kuta, Central Lombok, such as; (1) Inter sentential, (2) Intra sentential, and (3) Tag (emblematic) switching.

Besides the types, the usage of codeswitching among the Sasak community at Kuta, Central Lombok occurs because of several factors that contributing to use of it, such as (1) Opponent of Speak (Speaking Partner), (2) Attending third Speaker, (3) Topic, (4) Awakening Humor, (5) just for Prestige, and (6) Situation.

   Besides above factors, it also because most of the Sasak community at Kuta, Central Lombok are bilinguals (Base Sasak and Bahasa Indonesia), they also very familiar in English, in order to most of them are used English as their third language. They very familiar in English because in this place exists tourism industries and object.

5.2.Suggestions

Regarding the significance of the present study, it is suggested that;

a.      It is expected that students, especially students in department of language and arts education to explore for a wide range of speech events in the community in this archipelago as research materials as an effort to preserve and empowerment of language itself in the midst of the wider community, especially to preserve and empowerment of local language in order to its not lost by language shift of foreign language.

b.     This thesis discusses codeswitching among the Sasak community at Kuta, Central Lombok. There are still several aspects that can be analyzed for the other researcher to help to understand more about sociolinguistics theories especially in codeswitching.

c.      This thesis is hoped to become the reference for analyzing linguistics study at school or especially for English department Faculty of Teacher Training and Education (FKIP) of Mataram University