Chinese-English and Malay-English code-switching in YouTube comments / Chan Jin Yang
Code-switching is common among bilingual or multilingual speakers. This is due to the fact that both bilingual and multilingual speakers have a strong tendency to switch between two or more languages. Code-switching is one of the important aspects of sociolinguistics studies. Researchers have been c...
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| description | Code-switching is common among bilingual or multilingual speakers. This is due to the fact that both bilingual and multilingual speakers have a strong tendency to switch between two or more languages. Code-switching is one of the important aspects of sociolinguistics studies. Researchers have been conducting studies on oral code-switching in multilingual societies for many years. However, the emergence of computer-mediated communication, or CMC, is changing how people communicate over the Internet. Code-switching is noted in Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, emails, and blogs. This research investigates the occurrences of Chinese-English and Malay-English code-switching by YouTube users in YouTube comments. To achieve this objective, data were collected using a qualitative method. The data were collected over a period of one month, throughout May 2022 and analysed to identify the differences and similarities in the types and styles. The frequency of code-switching that took place in YouTube comments was tabulated and further discussed for better understanding. The reasons that motivated this code-switching were identified by using Hoffman’s theory (1991) of code-switching. The results did show vast differences between the types and styles used by these two pairs of languages.
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| spelling | my.um.stud-157262025-09-07T18:35:38Z Chinese-English and Malay-English code-switching in YouTube comments / Chan Jin Yang Chan , Jin Yang P Philology. Linguistics Code-switching is common among bilingual or multilingual speakers. This is due to the fact that both bilingual and multilingual speakers have a strong tendency to switch between two or more languages. Code-switching is one of the important aspects of sociolinguistics studies. Researchers have been conducting studies on oral code-switching in multilingual societies for many years. However, the emergence of computer-mediated communication, or CMC, is changing how people communicate over the Internet. Code-switching is noted in Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, emails, and blogs. This research investigates the occurrences of Chinese-English and Malay-English code-switching by YouTube users in YouTube comments. To achieve this objective, data were collected using a qualitative method. The data were collected over a period of one month, throughout May 2022 and analysed to identify the differences and similarities in the types and styles. The frequency of code-switching that took place in YouTube comments was tabulated and further discussed for better understanding. The reasons that motivated this code-switching were identified by using Hoffman’s theory (1991) of code-switching. The results did show vast differences between the types and styles used by these two pairs of languages. 2023-08 Thesis NonPeerReviewed application/pdf http://studentsrepo.um.edu.my/15726/1/Chan_Jin_Yang.pdf application/pdf http://studentsrepo.um.edu.my/15726/2/Chan_Jin_Yang.pdf Chan , Jin Yang (2023) Chinese-English and Malay-English code-switching in YouTube comments / Chan Jin Yang. Masters thesis, Universiti Malaya. http://studentsrepo.um.edu.my/15726/ |
| spellingShingle | P Philology. Linguistics Chan , Jin Yang Chinese-English and Malay-English code-switching in YouTube comments / Chan Jin Yang |
| title | Chinese-English and Malay-English code-switching in YouTube comments / Chan Jin Yang |
| title_full | Chinese-English and Malay-English code-switching in YouTube comments / Chan Jin Yang |
| title_fullStr | Chinese-English and Malay-English code-switching in YouTube comments / Chan Jin Yang |
| title_full_unstemmed | Chinese-English and Malay-English code-switching in YouTube comments / Chan Jin Yang |
| title_short | Chinese-English and Malay-English code-switching in YouTube comments / Chan Jin Yang |
| title_sort | chinese-english and malay-english code-switching in youtube comments / chan jin yang |
| topic | P Philology. Linguistics |
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