DEIXIS IN RAYA AND THE LAST DRAGON MOVIE SCRIPT

Abstract

The objective of this research were to find out the types of deixis and describe the functions of deixis that contained in Raya and The Last Dragon movie script. In this research the writer used qualitative descriptive method and theory by Levinson to analyze the types of deixis and the function of deixis in Raya and The Last Dragon movie script. The results shows that there were five types of deixis used in Raya and The Last Dragon movie script namely person deixis (I, me, us, we), time deixis (ago, later, now and today), place deixis (here and there), discourse deixis (this and that) and social deixis (magical creatures, Chief Benja, mighty, Tail Chief, Captain Boun, Chief of Talon, Fang gang, Fang soldiers, princess, buddy, ba, Dep la, binturis, father, my friends). Person deixis is the most dominant types of deixis that appear in Raya and The Last Dragon movie script. The function of deixis in Raya and The Last Dragon movie script divided into: person deixis functions as singular first person pronoun, plural first person pronoun, singular second person pronoun, plural second person pronoun, singular third person pronoun and plural third person pronoun. Time deixis has function to explain the time of an event which happened in past, in present and in the future. Place deixis has function to explain the place that close to the speaker, the place that close to the listener and the place that away from the speaker and the listener. Discourse deixis has function to explain the words that has been mentioned before and to explain the words to be mentioned in utterance. Social deixis has function to distinguish the social status between the speaker and the listener, distinguish the social level between the speaker and the listener, distinguish the social identity between the speaker and the listener, clarify the closeness of social relational and to maintain the language manners.