COMMUNICATION PATTERN IN AN INTERCULTURAL FAMILY (A CASE STUDY OF INDONESIAN – AMERICAN COUPLE)

Abstract

Communication is the main issue that can occurs in Intercultural family, in this research about code-switching and codemixing. The purpose of this research is to find out what pattern of communication applied by intercultural family. The researcher divided the analysis into several parts, causes of code-switching and code-mixing, types of code-switching and code-mixing applied in the family, children’s communication process in the family and strategies to solve communication problems in intercultural family. By using in-depth interview, the research finding was collected from one informant. Besides that, the researcher also used documents to support and validate the primarily data obtained from in-depth interview. The researcher purposively conducted research on Indonesian female who is married with people from different nation using qualitative research method with case study approach. By conducting this research, the researcher found the type of code-switching and code-mixing, also communication processes applied by member in intercultural family.