Indonesia Conference Directory

This research is aimed at describing code-switching as seen in trading activity in Solok Regency. The objectives of this writing are to identify the form of codes which are commonly used by bilingual and diglossic inhabitants in trading activity in Solok market, to classify the code-switching which happens when the sellers and the buyers are talking to each other and to find out the factors which caused code-switching and diglossia. This research applied descriptive qualitative research in which the data was obtained from a conversation in trading activities in Kota Solok. The data was also taken from the informants statements about the things, which were related to the coding problem itself. The data were collected by the observational method supported by note-taking and recording technique. The result found, there are several forms of code-switching in trading activity in Kota Solok market: the switching among language codes, among dialect codes and among variety codes. The diglossic situation can also be found in society. The diglossic situation can emerge when a society has two languages while each shows different functions (high and low) in a different community. It can be seen in Merantau tradition by Minang People