AN ANALYSIS OF DEIXIS USED IN THE CROODS MOVIE SCRIPT

ABSTRACT Farahita, Alifia Risty. Student Register Number. 12203183295. “An Analysis of Deixis Used in The Croods Movie Script”. Sarjana Thesis. English Education Depratement.Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teacher Training. State Islamic University (UIN) of Sayyid Ali Rahmatullah. Advisor: Nany Soengkono Madayani, S.S., M.Pd. Keywords: Deixis, The Croods, Movie. Language is an important tool in human life to communicate with each other. Language can deliver ideas, emotions, desires so that people can get a lot of information. The listeners can know the speakers meaning if they know the speaker's context. The branch of linguistics that studied the relations between language and context on understanding language is pragmatics. Here, the researcher conducts a study about deixis. Deixis is a part of pragmatics that learns about the position of person, place, and time in utterances. The use of deixis is not only found in daily conversation but it can be found in literary work such as poetry magazines, novels, song lyrics also movies. The researcher in this study analyzed the deixis in the movie namely The Croods. The Croods movie presents the story of the adventures of The Croods family in a new world to find a place called home. The researcher formulated the research problems in this study as follow: (1) What are the types of deixis used in The Croods movie script? (2) How the deixis used in The Croods movie script? This research belongs to library study with qualitative approach. The method that used in this study was descriptive method. The object in this study is The Croods movie script. The data were taken from the utterances of the main characters from The Croods movie script. The data collection techniques were downloading the movie, watching the movie, downloading the movie script, reading the movie script, identifying the utterances of the main characters, and identifying the utterances of the main characters using Yule's theory. The steps to analyze the data were coding, classifying, checking, concluding, and reporting. The result of this study showed that The Croods movie script used three types of deixis, they are person deixis, spatial deixis, and temporal deixis. There are three kinds of person deixis namely first person deixis, second person deixis, also third person deixis. Person deixis is used to refer someone or thing. Spatial deixis is used to refer to a location. Temporal deixis is used to refer to the time of speech event. Each deixis in utterances has its own function, reference, and context