AN ANALYSIS OF DEIXIS TYPES IN THE NOVEL “EVERYTHING ABOUT HIM” BY RITA CLAY ESTRADA

ABSTRACT Luthfia, Umma. Student Registered Number. 3213113027. 2015. An Analysis of Deixis Types In The Novel Everything About Him by Rita Clay Estrada. Sarjana Thesis. English Education Department. Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teacher Training. State Islamic Institute (IAIN) of Tulungagung. Advisor: Nany Soengkono Madayani , S.S, M.P d . Keywords : pragmatics, person deixis, temporal deixis, spatial deixis Lan g uag e is very important in human life i n this word. Between human and language cannot be separated each other. One of the functions of language is to communication. A lthough language is used to communicate, sometimes the hearer or addressees are ambiguous . In English, it is difficult to underst and if we do n ot know about who is speaker, when, and where. Here, the context is needed to underst and what the speaker’s meaning. D eixis is one of scopes study in pragmatics. It is used to make understand about what the speaker meaning. One of literary wo rk is novel. The readers may often foun d in difficulties to understand about the speaker meaning in the novel . If they know the context, they can understand easier. The formulations of research problem were : 1 ) W hat are the types of deixis found in the novel “Everything About Him” by Rita Clay Estrada ? 2) What are the frequency of each deixis type found in the novel “Everything about Him” by Rita Clay Estrada ? The purposes of this study were : 1) To find out the types of deixis in the novel “Everything About Him” by Rita Clay Estrada. 2) To find out the frequency of each deixis types in the novel “Everything About Him” by Rita Clay Estrada. The research design of this study was descriptive quantitative approach which employed pragmatics analysis . It is intended to investigate those two formulations of research problems i n relation to types of deixis. T he data sources were all the utterance in the novel entitled Everything About Him. The data were the s entences in conversation f orm that consist of types of deixis. The result showed that: 1) 465 person deixis ; 29 Spatial deixis ; 71 temporal deixis . 2) T he percentage of each type of deixis: for person deixis , 82.30% . For s patial deixis , 5.13% . For t emporal deixis , 12.57% . Based on the result o f the study , the researcher wanted to give suggestion for the students, teacher, reader, and other researcher. The students can improve their knowledge about types of deixis especially in literary work such as a novel. The teacher may take some examples to teach deixis types using native novel as the media . For example to teaching writing about recount text and teaching grammar about pronoun . The future researcher who wants to conduct the research in the same discipline can take the information of this research to get the better researc