CODE MIXING COMMUNICATION IN MULTILINGUAL SOCIETY IN MALAYSIA

In Malaysian Education system, students are essential to mastered both Malay and English language while Mandarin and Tamil naturally grasped by Chinese and Indian students as their native language. This phenomenon allows Malaysian student to have in command at least two or three language in education system. This code mixing being a part of multilingual society existed in Malaysia. This is an observatory, interview and non-experimental studies. The recorded conversations of secondary school students were transcribed to be analyse in terms of codeswitching and pragmatic. The Sperber and Wilson (1986) Relevance Theory that have updated in 1995 and 2001 stressed on the relevance of an utterance depends on the context and impact of context or cognition and information processing operations between speakers and listeners. Relevance theory will be a guidelines to conduct this research. All the data will be analyzed by this theoretical framework to answer the research question. In the early stages, this study analyse data characteristics of socio-linguistics followed by analysis in terms of pragmatic.