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space, as here, there, and there; the words which express the time, as now, tomorrow, and later; and the words are called word pointer, like this and that.
Deixis is a way to refer to something that is closely related to the context of the speakers. Thus, there is a referral from the speakers, close to the
speakers, and away from the speakers. There are three basic types of deixis, namely space deixis, person deixis and time deixis. The three types of deixis is
dependent on the interpretation of the speaker and hearer, or writer and reader, which is in the same context.
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In this research, the writer focus in one kind of deixis, that is person deixis. She will analyze the type of person deixis in to two kinds, the deictic
use and non-deictic use. The words containing deictic use will be analyzed into two uses, gestural and symbolic.
The writer researches a movie script entitled Mirror Mirror by Lisa Wallack and Jason Keller in 2012. In this movie, the characters use the deixis
words in the interaction, for example:
Queen: do it again. Say it again. Come on
Ooh, you ‘re no fun
You, do it To find reference you referred to by the speaker, must be known in
the context of the movie. In the context of utterance, there are three people involved in this conversation. Queen as the speaker, Snow White and Brighton
as the addressee. Speakers use gestural to designate a reference. Her eyes and bodies movements
, ―you‖ in the first sentences, the speaker pointed Snow
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White to perform speaker commands, and the word ―you‖ in the second
sentence, speaker switching reference to Brighton to do the same with her eyes movements.
Thus, the identification of meaning deixis is a language that can only be known when it is in a language event because it is influenced by the context
of the situation referred to by the speaker talks.
B. Focus of the Research
This research focuses on the study of person deixis are implied in conversation between Queen Clementianna and with her interlocutor in
transcript of Mirror Mirror movie by Lisaa Wallack and Jason Keller. The transcription was downloaded from
www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk .
Levinson‘s theory of deixis is used in this research.
C. Research of the Question
The writer formulates research into some questions: 1.
What kinds of person deixis in Mirror Mirror movie based on Levinson‘s categorization?
2. How does the character Queen Clementianna use person deixis in the
conversation based on Levinson ‘s categorization?
D. Significance of the Research
The objects of the research are to determine what kinds of deixis and to find out the deictic uses presented in Mirror Mirror movie script by Lisa
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Wallack and Jason Keller. This research is expected of giving a useful knowledge in the development of linguistics in pragmatics field in general and
especially in the study of deixis.
E. Methodology of the Research
1. Objective of the Research
This research is intended to: a.
To find out what types of person deixis used in the Mirror Mirror movie script.
b. To analyze how the usage of person deixis are found in the Mirror
Mirror movie script by Lisa Wallack and Jason Keller.
2. Method of the Research
In this research the writer uses descriptive qualitative method. Therefore, the writer tries to describe and analyze the type of deixis and
the usage of person deixis in the Mirror Mirror movie script by Lisa
Wallack and Jason Keller. It means that the research uses verbal data as a basic of analysis and solves the problem that is studying.
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3. Technique of Data Analysis
The research process of data collection take place in several stage. First, the writer finds out the Mirror Mirror movie script by Lisa Wallack
and Jason Keller. The next step, the writer watched and reads the movie script then classifies the dialogues that might contain deixis person in the
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movie. Furthermore, the third step, the writer analyzes the data based on the theory.
4. Instrument of The Research
The instrument of this research is the writer herself as a research subject. As the main instrument, the writer will obtain and analyze the
required data in various ways, such as reading, identifying, and grouping the dialogue and making it as data to analysis by using pragmatics
approach. Then, she analyzed the type and the usage of deixis based on the context of utterance.
5. Unit of Analysis
The unit of analysis in this study the writer usage the Mirror Mirror movie script by Lisa Wallack and Jason Keller, produced by
Goldmann and Josh Pateyang released on March 16, 2012.
6. Time and Place of the Research
This research was held on the 8
th
semester in 2013, in English and Letters Department, Letters and Humanities Faculty, State Islamic
University of Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta, and several libraries that support the theory and reference materials as well as the writer needed, other
information media elements, and also other related places to get some better references to support the analysis of the data.
