An Analysis of Deixis Found on the Captions of National Geographic Instagram Account and Its Application in Teaching Grammar at the Tenth Grade Students of Senior High School

Abstract

Deixis is a study about language phenomena which discusses words that have a relative meaning. In this study, the researcher intended to analyze deixis found on the caption of National Geographic Instagram Account. Based on the problem statements, the objectives of this study are to identify and classify the types of deixis found on the caption of National Geographic Instagram Account and to describe the application in teaching grammar at the tenth grade students of Senior High School. This study belonged to qualitative study since the researcher analyzed the captions of National Geographic Instagram Account published on June, 1st-7th 2016. The instrument of research was the researcher. The researcher used documentation as the technique of collecting data for doing the research. The researcher collected the data through five steps. After the data were collected, they were analyzed through six steps. In this study the researcher found 204 deixis in 130 sentences. According to the analysis, the researcher found 77% person deixis, 3,4% place deixis, 6,4% time deixis and 13,2% discourse deixis. The type of deixis most commonly found on the captions was person deixis because these captions mostly contained reports which described about participants in an event. There was no social deixis on the captions since there were no sentences that show the social distinction among participant roles in the sentence. The analysis of deixis can be applied in teaching grammar at the tenth grade students of senior high school based on syllabus and lesson plan of curriculum 2013.