Humaniora: Journal of Linguistics, Literature, and Education
Vol. 2 No. 2 (2022): HUMANIORA: Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Education, Desember 2022

Deixis in Raya and The Last Dragon Movie Script

Asrawi Sahidin (English Literature Departement, Letters Faculty, Bosowa University)
Sudirman Maca (English Program, Postgraduated, Bosowa University)
Andi Tenri Abeng (English Literature Departement, Letters Faculty, Bosowa University)



Article Info

Publish Date
10 Jan 2023

Abstract

Some difficulties of the speakers in using the diexis in the social interaction, and make the speakers misunderstand the message of utterances. The research aimed to find out the types and function of deixis in the Raya and The Last Dragon movie script. The deixis are always found in the daily interaction. The deixis were analyzed in the interaction or the utterance in which related to the people, something, place and time. The research applied qualitative descriptive through pragmatic approach in analyzing the data. The data were obtained by reading, identifying, highlighting the words that contained deixis in the utterance based on Levinson theory. The results show that there were five types of deixis used in movie script namely person deixis, time deixis, place deixis, discourse deixis and social deixis. Person deixis was the most dominant types used in movie script. Every deixis has different functions based on the types of deixis such as: person deixis has 6 functions, time deixis has 3 functions, place deixis has 3 functions, discourse deixis has 2 functions and social deixis has 5 functions.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

jlle

Publisher

Subject

Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

Humaniora: Journal of Linguistics, Literature, and Education (JLLE) is an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal, published in June and December, twice a year electronically by Faculty of Letters Bosowa Universty. It covers the latest developments in the broad areas of English language, ...