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CHAPTER II REVIEW OF LITERATURE
A. Review of Related Studies
Kingsman: The Secret Service is a British spy action comedy movie directed
by Matthew Vaughn. This movie is about a recruitment and training of a potential secret agent, Gary Unwin - or called as Eggsy – into a secret spy organization that
aimed to tackle a global threat from a wealthy eco-terrorist. Released on 13 February 2015, the movie was actually based on the comic
book The Secret Service created by Mark Millar and David Gibbons. This British action movie was directed by Matthew Vaughn, and it became his most
commercially successful film to date because of the positive reviews and awards received by the movie such as: The Best British Film on 2015 by Empire Award,
UK and The Best Comic Book Adaptation Movie by IGN Imagine Games Network on 2015.
In the movie, there were many deixis. According to Yule 1996 and Cutting 2002, there are three kinds of deixis: person deixis, spatial deixis, and temporal
deixis. However, this study only focuses on person deixis. The first study was from a thesis from Silvia Kurnia Dewi 2007. In this
study, Dewi analyzed the person deixis that appears in the Dreamgirls Musical Movie
soundtrack entitled It’s All Over. Using pragmatic approach, the study found that the kinds of person deictic expressions always refer to reference to
indicate the person being referred. For example, first person pronoun refers to the
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speaker, second person pronoun refers to the addressee, and third person pronoun refers to the other participants nor speaker nor the addressee.
Ike Endah Rachmawati 2007 conducted a thesis that analyzed the case study among the students of English Department Program of Diponegoro
University, Semarang. By using Levinson’s book, she studied the person deixis involved in the conversation in the environment of English Department Program
of Diponegoro University. From the study, she found that the first person deictic expression found were aku, saya, and kita; second person deictic expression found
were dia, deknen, beliau, the name of the third person and kinship terms. The last study was conducted by Agustina Meliani in 2002. The study
analyzed the kinds of deixis that appear in written language: person deixis, time deixis and place deixis from those ten stories. By counting the total of each type
of deixis, the study found that person deixis is mostly used in the while stories and followed by place deixis and time deixis. She also found out that the use of deixis
may not lead the reader to confusion by knowing the clear references mentioned by the speaker.
The previous studies are very useful for conducting this thesis. However, this thesis only used the studies that relate to this thesis: deixis, and person deixis.
This research is different from all the studies above because the focus is only on the person deixis, the referent and the inference of person deixis found in the
movie.