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Code choice used by the employees in the communication with their superior and the co-worker in a Work Place

This study is about the choice of codes used by the employees in
communicating with their superior and their co-worker. The writer chose this
topic for her study since she realizes that Indonesia is a multilingual society. The
thing that has caught the writer’s attention and curiosity to write on this particular
topic is the language that is used by the employees in a work place like switching
when they talk to the superior and the co-worker. The aims of this study were to
describe and to analyze the codes which were used by the employees, to find out
the dominant code they chose, and to explain what factors affected their choice of
code. The writer reviewed codes, code switching, code mixing, and social factors
as her related literature. For the source of data, the writer used a phone to record
the conversation and the verbatim data from her observation. The writer chose and
collected the data she needed. Then she analyzed the data using tables. Through
the analysis, the writer found that the employees chose to use standard or casual
Indonesian codes in communicating with their superior. This happened because
they wanted to show their respect to the superior to keep their social distance
intact. Whereas they used Javanese codes in communicating among themselves
because they did not need to highlight any respect. They felt that they were
equals.