Structural Typology of Indonesian-English Code-Switching in a Bilingual YouTube Podcast: A Study of Maudy Ayunda’s Spotlight S2
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https://doi.org/10.24256/ideas.v14i2.10428Keywords:
code-switching, Indonesian-English, structural typology, tag switching, YouTube podcastAbstract
The structural typology of code-switching (CS) in Indonesian digital media discourse remains underexplored, particularly in the YouTube podcast genre. This study identifies and describes the structural types of Indonesian-English CS produced by Maudy Ayunda across six episodes of her bilingual YouTube podcast Spotlight S2 – Navigating Your 20s (2025). Using a qualitative-descriptive design, 71 CS instances were classified according to Poplack's (1980) taxonomy of inter-sentential, intra-sentential, and tag switching. Results show that intra-sentential switching is dominant (56.3%), indicating high bilingual grammatical competence. Inter-sentential switching (38.0%) is concentrated at discourse-boundary positions and functions as a contextualization cue. Tag switching (5.6%) serves affective and back-channel functions. These findings confirm that CS in this corpus is a structurally sophisticated and purposeful communicative practice.
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