Code-Switching in Commercial Activities at Moneng Sepati Market

Abstract

One of the phenomena that most often occurs and is discussed in a speech event is code switching. Code switching is the transition from one code to another. The phenomenon of code switching occurs at least in bilingual and even multilingual speech communities; on the contrary, this phenomenon will not occur in monolingual speech communities. The Lubuklinggau community which is a non-monolingual speech community, also experienced the phenomenon of code switching. The code, which is a speech system in the Lubuklinggau Society, consists of various variants. Code switching in the community in Lubuklinggau is very easy to find in the market, where people often make buying and selling transactions, and one of them is in the market Moneng Sepati. Code switching, which consists of various variants, also has various social functions.