AN ANALYSIS OF DEIXIS IN WEDNESDAY SERIAL MOVIE: PRAGMATIC STUDY AND ITS CONTRIBUTIONS FOR TEACHING PRAGMATICS

Yulianingrum, Fauziah. 2023. An Analysis of Deixis in Wednesday Serial
Movie: Pragmatic Study and Its Contributions for Teaching Pragmatics. Final
Project, English Study Program, Faculty of Language and Arts Education,
University of PGRI Semarang. Advisor I: Faiza Hawa, S.Pd., M. Hum. Advisor
II: Laily Nur Affini, S.Pd., M.Hum.
This research aims to classify the kinds of deixis and identify the most dominant
deixis used in the Wednesday serial movie. It also analyzes to whom, what, and
where the actresses are addressed based on the deixis used in the utterances in the
Wednesday serial movie. The method used in this research is the descriptive-
qualitative method. The researcher applied Levinson‟s theory to identify and
classify the kinds of deixis in the Wednesday serial movie. The data used in this
research are utterances spoken by the main character in the Wednesday serial
movie. In analyzing the research, the researcher found 1.805 deictic words
included in the kinds of deixis. According to the findings of this research, there
are five kinds of deixis contained in the Wednesday serial movie from chapters I
-VIII, namely person deixis with a percentage of 83,4%, time deixis with a
percentage of 4,4%, place deixis with a percentage of 2,6%, social deixis with a
percentage of 4,7%, and discourse deixis with a percentage of 4,9%. The most
dominant deixis used in the Wednesday serial movie is person deixis. In general,
person deixis shows the person as a speaker, listener, or someone who is
addressed in a speech event. Time deixis indicates the time period when an
utterance is spoken; place deixis indicates the relative location of participants in a
speech event; social deixis indicates the social relationship between the speaker
and the listener; and discourse deixis is concerned as if it is used to relate to other
parts of the discourse.
Keywords: Deixis, Kinds of Deixis, Movie, Wednesday Serial Movie