An Analysis of Deixis and Its Reference Used by Main Character in “A Thousand Words” Movie Scriptby Steve Koren

Abstract

The type of this research is Descriptive Qualitative research. It is aimed to find out the types of Personal, Time, Place, Discourse and Social Deixis and its reference by the main character in “A Thousand Words” movie script based on the theory that proposed by Levinson. The object of this study is “A Thousand Words” movie script by Steve Koren. This research found the five types of deixis in a movie script, they are person deixis (515 occurrences), time deixis (20 occurrences), place deixis (34 occurrences), discourse deixis (104 occurrences) and social deixis (1 occurrence). Besides that, the references found in this research were in person deixis were I, Me, We, Us, My as first person deixis; You, Your as second person deixis; He, She, It, They, Them, Him, Her as third person deixis which belongs to personal deixis (149 utterances); time deixis found were Now, Today, On a Tuesday, Three days, Two days, Then (19 utterances); place deixis found was Here, There, In (22 utterances); discourse deixis found was This, That, Those, These (60 utterances); ands the last, social deixis found were Mr (1 utterance).

THE USE OF DEIXIS IN WONDER WOMAN MOVIE (Penggunaan Deiksis dalam Film Wonder Woman)

“…In the context of deixis analysis, several researchers have conducted the same research but in different research objects (See for example, Sasmita et al (2018); Ardeatika & Setiawan (2019); Ulfah & Hidayat, 2020). The results are dissimilar because each movie script has a different scene, plot, and context.…”

“…However, Sasmita et al (2018) managed to find 674 occurrences in the A Thousand Words film script. This number certainly far exceeds the amount that the researchers found in the Wonder Woman film script.…”

“…However, some researchers uncovered the deixis of a movie script. Sasmita et al (2018) found out the types of Personal, Time, Place, Discourse and Social Deixis and its reference by the main character in "A Thousand Words" movie script based on the proposed theory of Levinson. The research found the five types of deixis in a movie script, namely the person deixis (515 occurrences: I, me, we, us, my, you, your, he, she, it, they, them, him, her), time deixis (20 occurrences: now, today, on a Tuesday, three days, two days), place deixis (34 occurrences: here, there, in), discourse deixis (104 occurrences: his, that, those, these), and social deixis (1 occurrence: Mr.).…”

“…The researchers chose to examine this topic since it benefits people to understand meaning effectively to point out something. Besides, deixis always includes language and society (Sulistyowati et al, 2020;Sasmita et al, 2018;Jumaedah et al, 2020). Especially in Wonder Woman movie, deixis can be found the movie to get more understanding through this movie.…”

English Deixis in Picture Storybooks for Children

“…You, Your as second person deixis. He, She, It, They, Them, Him, Her or third person deixis (Sasmita et al, 2018). As for the Maleficent movie script, the type of person deixis dominates the results of research conducted by (Wiguna et al, 2018).…”