Deixis in “the pursuit of happyness” novel by Chris Gardner

Sandria, Fitra (2019) Deixis in “the pursuit of happyness” novel by Chris Gardner. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

This research discusses about deixis in “The Pursuit of Happyness” novel by Chris Gardner. The purposes of this research are to find out the kinds of deixis and the function of deixis in the novel. In this research, the researcher used library research. It is to find the theories that support qualitative method for analyzing the data. The theoretical basic used the theory of George Yule which states deixis is a technical term (from Greek) for one of the most basic things we do with utterances. It means “pointing” is called a deictic expression. The researcher takes document to collect utterances, giving code, and analyzing deixis in utterances which is relating with deixis. The result of this research is three kinds of deixis in “The Pursuit Happyness” novel by Chris Gardner. They are person deixis 100 times, spatial deixis 33 times and temporal deixis 7 times. Totally, there are 140 deictic expressions.The deictic expression for person deixis; “I, my, me, myself, you, we, they, them, she, her, he, him”.Then spatial deixis; “this, these, that, here, there”. The last is temporal deixis; “every day, today, tomorrow, on Monday, in the morning”.All of the deictic expressions found in utterances.

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