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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelThis study is a sociolinguistics study of codes choices made by Chinese-Samarindanese
students of Petra Christian University. The writer chose this topic
for her study since Samarinda has no native language so it will be interesting to
find out several code choices they use in daily life. In this study the writer wants
to find out the additional codes aside from Indonesian code that Chinese-Samarindanese
used in daily life. She is also curious to know if there is any
difference in choosing the codes when the respondents talk to their mothers, older
siblings, and friends. The writer used the theory about code choice and social
distance proposed by Janet Holmes. The writer found that there were four code
choices that were used among Chinese-Samaridanese in their daily conversation
namely Samarindanese hedges, Banjarese code, Mandarin code, and English code.
Mandarin code was dominantly used between the respondents toward their
mothers in mentioning pronoun, determiner, main verb, preposition, interjection,
adverb, and noun. Samarindanese hedges were used dominantly by the
respondents to their older siblings. And toward friends, they tended to use
Banjarese code especially in mentioning certain pronouns, main verbs, adverbs,
and nouns, to show solidarity among them. Lastly, English code was used in
mentioning certain nouns and main verbs which have been understood by many
people.