| Summary: | Code-switching is common among bilingual or multilingual speakers. This is due to the fact that both bilingual and multilingual speakers have a strong tendency to switch between two or more languages. Code-switching is one of the important aspects of sociolinguistics studies. Researchers have been conducting studies on oral code-switching in multilingual societies for many years. However, the emergence of computer-mediated communication, or CMC, is changing how people communicate over the Internet. Code-switching is noted in Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, emails, and blogs. This research investigates the occurrences of Chinese-English and Malay-English code-switching by YouTube users in YouTube comments. To achieve this objective, data were collected using a qualitative method. The data were collected over a period of one month, throughout May 2022 and analysed to identify the differences and similarities in the types and styles. The frequency of code-switching that took place in YouTube comments was tabulated and further discussed for better understanding. The reasons that motivated this code-switching were identified by using Hoffman’s theory (1991) of code-switching. The results did show vast differences between the types and styles used by these two pairs of languages.
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