Malay-English code-mixing insertion: why 'lepaking' in preference to 'hanging out'?

• Main Authors: Anuar, Azu Farhana, Paramasivam, Shamala, Ismail, Md Jais
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Quantum Academic Publisher 2020
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/86625/1/Malay-English%20code-mixing%20insertion.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/86625/; https://www.qjssh.com/index.php/qjssh/article/view/34
• Institution: Universiti Putra Malaysia

This study scrutinized the current media language culture of code-mixing insertion practice of English morpheme (-ing) into Malay lexical item (lepak) by Malaysians on Facebook. A collection of 227 Facebook postings of the usage of ‘lepaking’, where base language of the online postings is Malay, fro...