Sixteenth International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities

Abstract

Code-switching has always been an intriguing phenomenon to sociolinguists. It is an alternate use of two or more languages in the same utterance or conversation in a bilingual or multilingual conversation. In giving an Islamic speech (Da’wah), many Islamic scholars use code-switching as a strategy in Palopo city. This study describes the motivation and the reason for Islamic Scholars to use code mixing in their Islamic speech in Palopo city. Data were collected through observations, questionnaires, and interviews. There were fifteen selected Islamic scholars as subject of this research. Each Islamic scholar was observed, their language use were recorded, transcribed, and then analyzed using the functions proposed by Bhatia and Ritchie (2004). Analysis of the data showed that, in most cases, code mixing by Islamic scholars in Palopo city was done because of participant roles and relationship, situational factors, and the message’s intrinsic factor also language attitude, security reasons, and motivation.