AN ANALYSIS OF DEIXIS FOUND IN SPONGEBOB MOVIE SCRIPT

ABSTRACT Tulah, Ferya Dinata Rahmat. Student Registered Number. 3213113074. 2015, Deixis Used in SpongeBob Movie Series. Sarjana Thesis. English Education Department. Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teacher Training. State Islamic Institute (IAIN) Tulungagung, Advisor: Dr. Sukarsono, M.Pd Keyword: Deixis, SpongeBob Movie Script Every information uttered by speakers’ refers to different things. The meaning can point person, place, and time. Actually, understanding meaning of the speakers is difficult. Thus, the speaker should understand the context of conversation. Deixis is a part of discourse analysis, which concerns to the context of utterance and referring to who is speaking, the time or place of speaking, the gesture of the speaker or the current location of the discourse. According to Wikia.com, The most viewed cartoon that is watched by children occurs in SpongeBob movie. SpongeBob Square Pants is an American animated television series. Created by marine biologist and animator Stephen Hillenburg, it is broadcast on Nickelodeon, an American cable network. This study was intended to investigate deixis based on the formulation of the research problems as follows: (1) what are the types of deixis found in SpongeBob movie script? (2) How is the frequency of each deixis in SpongeBob movie script? The purpose of this study was to: (1) found out deixis types and (2) frequency of each deixis in SpongeBob movie script. Research method: 1) the research was conducted by using a quantitative descriptive while the data taken from the print media (SpongeBob movie season script). And the data analysis was done by using the theory of pragmatics, especially deixis from Levinson theory. The research finding showed that: (1) there are five kinds of deixis, namely person deixis (first person, second person, and third person), place deixis (proximal and distal), time deixis, discourse deixis, and social deixis. Person deixis was the most fragment found in the SpongeBob movie season. Person deixis concerns the grammatical categories of person such as; me, you, them, us, and so on. The center of Place deixis is the place that the speech event occurs (here and there). Time deixis is the word used to point certain period of time in the speech event (yesterday, tomorrow, now). Moreover, discourse deixis or text is the expression of the referent is not shown in the sentence, but the referent is attached to the last, next or the current position of the discourse. The last, social deixis used in social absolute relation when an utterance is produced the speaker to addressee. (2) The frequency of occurrence of types of deixis as follows: the person deixis is the one which reached a greater level than another, means it was used by 156 times or (71.89%). The detail of person deixis is in first person used 75 times or (34.56%), the second person used 62 times or (28.57%) and third person used 19 times or (8.75%). The next is discourse deixis usage 29 times or (13.36%). The following, place deixis used 22 times or (10.14%) and time deixis used 9 times or (4.02%). The last, social deixis used 1 times or (0.46%). It is recommended to the next researcher. Study deixis is important to improve student writing skill because deixis helps the writer and the reader understanding the production and interpretation utterance. So the researcher suggests to the next researcher will discuss about the kinds of deixis and the nature of the references in different fields, such as referent anaphora and kataphora in deixis. Referent anaphora and kataphora are important. It helps in understanding the meaning of an utterance of something