My Thesis

Abstract: Uncle JC’s Happy Hour is an English program on Smart FM Jakarta. The community often uses code – switching during the interactive talk. Marasigan (1983: 54-119) seeks answers of variety of code switching and code mixing in Metropolitan Manila. Her finding is that there are 7 conversational and written functions which are influenced by many factors such as participants. This thesis’ aims are (1) What conversational function of code switching did occur in Uncle JC’s Happy Hour? (2) What factors accounted for the code switching on the Uncle JC’s Happy Hour. The descriptive qualitative research is recorded, transcribed, identified, categorized and reduced. Finally, the classification falls into 6 conversational functions, while factors such as participants, topics, setting, attitudes, values and culture, and personal emotions accounted for switching code at Uncle JC’s Happy Hour. The result of the analysis also shows that 10 languages are used by hosts and callers in switching codes.