Abstract:
This thesis deals with deixis in Edward Snowden movie. The objective of
this research are to find out the types of deixis contained in the Edward Snowden
movie and describe the application of deixis in Edward Snowden movie in
teaching writing at tenth grade of senior high school.
This research is a qualitative research. The data source of this thesis is the
manuscript from Edward Snowden movie. The researcher conducted library
approach to get information about deixis. In collecting the data, the researcher
found the movie and the manuscript. Then watch the movie and read the
manuscript while identify the dialogues which contain of deixis, and then the
researcher analyze them and gives the reason why the dialogues are categorized as
a deixis.
The result of the research shows that three types of deixis found in Edward
Snowden movie there are 1730 person deixis (92.38%), 80 place deixis (4,15%),
67 time deixis (3.47%). The application of deixis in teaching writing can be
applied in tenth grade of senior high school semester 2. The types of deixis are
person deixis, place deixis, and time deixis.The most frequency type of deixis
used by person deixis Person deixis tend to use because person deixis the most
from the others.The material which is closely related with deixis is short
functional text. The teacher can use the story in movie to teach types of deixis,
such as news item, narrative, and descriptive. In the element of the story usually
contain person, place, and time. This research will be useful for English teacher to
help them in understanding the deixis.
