ANALYSIS OF AMISH TRIPATHI'S THE IMMORTALS OF MELUHA TO EXAMINE THE APPLICATION OF CODE-MIXING AND CODE-SWITCHING BY MULTILINGUAL SPEAKERS

The speakers in multilingual societies often mix and switch codes according to specific personal and social conditions of the communication they are involved in. These two processes of code alternation are called code-mixing and codeswitching. Generally, code-switching describes any switch among languages during a conversation, whether at the level of words, sentences, or blocks of speech, in contrast, code-mixing describes the mixing of two languages at the word level.
This paper aims to analyze the use of code-switching and code-mixing used in Amish Tripathi’s The Immortals of Meluha. In collecting data for the research, the researcher took a few steps, such as observing and reviewing the novel and choosing the dialogues containing code-mixing and code-switching.
The researcher found that the dialogues in the novel have different kinds of code-switching and code-mixing. There were three types of code-switching; tag, inter-sentential, and intra- sentential. It was also found that there are different reasons for code-mixing and code-switching used by the author.