| dc.description.abstract | This research is a descriptively case study which aims at analysing the
speech functions in code switching produced by mentors as well as their male
mentees in the second season of Thai male modelling-themed reality show which
was aired in 2018. In analysing those collected data, the researcher applied Appel
and Muysken’s (1987) conceptual framework on six speech functions of code
switching, which are: 1) the directive function; 2) the expressive function; 3) the
referential function; 4) the metalinguistic function; 5) the poetic function; and 6)
the phatic function, and the context of situation where the related utterances
occurred in such the reality show was mentioned in the section of data
interpretation of each individual datum. The data source was gained from ten
episodes videos uploaded on www.watchlakorn.in/TheFaceMenThailandSeason2-
cm-3352. The data is in the form of utterances which are related to Thai-English
code switching.
The qualitative approach was employed by the researcher in this research
because of the fact that the types of code switching functions and the reasons the
television reality show’s participants (mentors and male contestants) performed
such speech functions were going to be elucidated. The findings of this research
shows that there are five speech functions of code switching occurred in the
reality show, which are: 1) referential function found in data (1), (10), (11), (19),
(20), (23), (27), (28), (29), (30), (31), (34), (36), 38) and (40); 2) metalinguistic
function appearing in data (4), (6), (7), (14), (21), (22), (24), (25), (26), (31), (32),
(37) and (39); 3) expressive function emerging in data (2), (3), (5), (7), (8), (9),
(12), (13), (16), (18), (23) and (35); 4) directive function observed in data (17); and 5) poetic function took its place in datum (10) and (15). For the phatic speech
function, it was found to be absent in the show because nobody of the participants
uttered an utterance of this speech function. The mostly-occurred speech
functions, in terms their frequencies, performed by participants were: 1) the
referential speech function with an estimated 34. 88 per cent; 2) the metalinguistic
function with an estimated 30.23 per cent; 3) the expressive function with an
estimated 21.91 per cent; 4) the poetic function with an estimated 4.65 per cent; 5)
the directive function with an estimated 2.33 per cent; and 6) the phatic function
with an estimated 0.00 per cent, respectively. | en_US |
