Abstract:
This research aims in identifying and classifying the kinds of the deixis from
the articles of the Jakarta post online newspaper and to describe the application in
teaching writing of the deixis in teaching writing at tenth grade Senior High School
students. Deixis is a study of meaning. Deixis is reference of an expression to point
some words which function to interpret the context. The researcher conducts the
analysis kinds of deixis such as person deixis, place deixis, time deixis, social deixis
and discourse deixis.
This research uses descriptive qualitative method to analysis the deixis. The
data is taken from the articles of The Jakarta Post online newspaper published on
March, 10th 2017. To collect the data, the researcher browses from
www.thejakartapost.com, selecting the articles and analyzing the deixis on the
articles. The researcher uses Levinson’s theory to conduct this research.
The result of this research show that The deixis found in the articles of The
Jakarat Post, those are person deixs is 138 items (89%), place deixis is 3 items
(1.93%), time deixis is 5 items (3.22%), social deixis is 9 items (5. 8%), and no
discourse deixis. The kinds of deixis are dominant to person deixis. It is because
most of sentences in the articles show the person and participants. The result shows
no discourse deixis because there is no sentences indicate to discourse deixis. The
application of deixis use in teaching writing at tenth grade senior high school
students. The researcher hopes this reseacrh will give more adventages to the
readers.
