Code Mixing and Life Depiction of Minang Community in the Film of “Tenggelamnya Kapal Van Der Wijck”: The Sociolinguistics Review Welsi Damayanti and Firman Aziz Faculty of Social Science and Education, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, Jl. Dr. Setiabudhi No.229, Bandung, Indonesia welsi_damayanti@upi.edu Keywords: Code Mixing, Minang People, Sociolinguistic. Abstract: This study aims to find the mixing of languages used by the characters in the “Tenggelamnya Kapal Van Der Wijck” film and a depiction of the public life in minang. This study used a qualitative approach with descriptive method because it will classify the use of code mixing on language usage and description of public life minang in this film. The results of this study are the findings of code mixing of the language used by the characters as the Indonesian wealth with its' various languages. The depiction of the life of the community referred to in this study is not only social interaction but also the rules of life. Minang people who have rules for children and kemenakan is unique. The order of life of the Minangkabau people is a custom which is formed by the early traditional leaders. Minangkabau people make niniak mamak or penghulu as role model in social life, alim ulama become a place to ask, and kemenakan make their mamak as place of deliberation in life. Besides the function of mamak, the description of the daily life of the Minang community is inseparable from the culture of manners tied to tradition. 1 INTRODUCTION Human as a social being will try to create a relationship that is realized from the social interaction that deliberately made by the society itself. Social interaction is the key to social life because without social interaction there is no common life. Humans have a dependence on other humans so this is the reason for the formation of community groups. The rules of society, if violated, are on a continuum defined by that society itself (Breslin and Wood, 2016). Communities that get together and interact often do something routine and becoming a habit. This habit is a forerunner to the tradition that will be formed into a culture and values of social life that is held tightly and is believed by the community. The Minangkabau ethnic community is one example of a social society that has values, traditions, and cultures that still maintain its' customs. Minangkabau community is a group of people who still maintain cultural preservation related to language and life rules. The relationship between society and language is a very interesting knowledge to discuss. Experts call that science in terms of sociolinguistics. Sociolinguistics comes from the words "socio" and "linguistic". Socio is the same as social word that is related to society. Linguistics is a science that studies and speaks the language especially the elements of language and between the elements. Thus, sociolinguistics is a study that makes theories about public relations with language. Based on the previous understanding, sociolinguistics also studies and discusses aspects of the societal language, especially differences that exist in language related to social factors. Thus it can be said that sociolinguistics is an interdisciplinary field of studying language in relation to the use of language in society (Chaer and Agustina, 2004). So sociolinguistic studies are a study of language associated with societal conditions (Sumarsono, 2011) Sociolinguistics focuses on social groups and linguistics by correlating between traditional demographics and the social sciences, namely age, gender, socio-economic class, regional grouping, status and others. There is also a correlation between linguistic form and social function. Social variations of language users can be reviewed from social and educational status. The science of language in society is very important. If everyone in the group speaks exactly the same as everyone other than in his group, there is no untruth like social science in Damayanti, W. and Aziz, F. Code Mixing and Life Depiction of Minang Community in the Film of “Tenggelamnya Kapal Van Der Wijck”: The Sociolinguistics Review. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Sociology Education (ICSE 2017) - Volume 2, pages 469-476 ISBN: 978-989-758-316-2 Copyright © 2018 by SCITEPRESS – Science and Technology Publications, Lda. All rights reserved 469