Deixis in novel “The Last Star” by Rick Yancey

Siregar, Try Mahendra (2018) Deixis in novel “The Last Star” by Rick Yancey. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

In literature, especially novel contains many expressions of human thoughts, ideas, opinions, and messages presented in different situation of the characters. To understand it, people need to understand about deixis. Deixis concerns with the encoding of many different aspects of the circumstances the surrounding the utterances and within the utterances itself. Novel entitled “The Last Star” by Rick Yancey is the appropriate literature to analyze deixis because the plot of the story occurs similarly with utterances in real life. So, this research, the researcher carries out the research title “Deixis in Novel “The Last Star” by Rick Yancey”. This research applied qualitative descriptive that analyzed the data findings by content analysis. The data were originally taken from Novel “The Last Star” by Rick Yancey”. This study intended to investigate deixis on the formulation of the research problems, as follows: 1) How are deixis in the novel “The Last Star” by Rick Yancey”, 2) What types of deixis are found in the novel “The Last Star” by Rick Yancey”, and 3) Why are types of deixis used in the novel “The Last Star” by Rick Yancey”. Then, the objectives of this study are; 1) to describe, 2) to find out and 3) to explain the reasons of deixis used in the novel “The Last Star” by Rick Yancey”. In order to analyze the data, the researcher used Levinson’s deixis theory. The result, the study showed that there are five of deixis in novel “The Last Star” by Rick Yancey. They are 77.2% person deixis, 7% place deixis, 4% time deixis, 9.4% discourse deixis, and 2.4% social deixis. All of these kinds were used to point to impermanent referent in speech events. The deictic expression for person deixis; “I, me, mine, you, your, yours, yourself, we, our, ours, ourselves, they, them, their, themselves, he, him, his, himself, she, her, herself, it”. The second is place deixis; “there, here, inside, around go, come, take, bring”. Then time deixis; now, tomorrow, last week and others. The fourth is discourse deixis; “this, that, well, so, and others”. The last is social deixis; “mother, father, sergeant, boss, and others”. So, the English learners should enrich themselves by understanding the types of deixis, the function of deixis, and how deixis used in an utterance in speech event.

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