Abstract:
People use language as a means of communication in the forms ofsound in
structure. One of them is pragmatic. In the pragmatic, we learn about deixis.
Deixis is a word which its reference always moves or change depending on the
context. Lyrics song is a media to learn about it. This study investigates the use of
deixis in lyrics song entitled Hero, When You Believe, Though The Rain, Make It
Happen, and Anytime You Need a Friend by Mariah Carey and its application in
grammar teaching especially simple future tense. The purpose of this study is to
describe the types of deixis found in lyrics song by Marriah Carey’s to describe the
kinds of deixis and the most dominant deixis, to describe the application of deixis
in the teaching grammar in the lyrics of Mariah Carey’s songs.
This study used descriptive qualitative because the researcher would like to
describe about. In this research the types of deixis found in lyrics song entitled
Hero, When You Believe, Though The Rain, Make It Happen, and Anytime You
Need a Friend, to describe the kinds of deixis and the most dominant deixis found
in the lyrics of Mariah Carey’s songs, to describe the application of deixis in the
teaching grammar in the lyrics of Mariah Carey’s songs.
The result of this study shows that the dominant kind of deixis is person
deixis. Person deixis is dominant because the number of it is higher than other
kinds of deixis. The person deixis is 125. They are first personal deixis, second
personal deixis, and third personal deixis. There are 5 place deixis. There are 9
time deixis. There are 9 discourse deixis. There is no social deixis found in the
lyrics of Mariah Carey’s songs. The person deixis found in the lyrics of Mariah
Carey’s songs is higher than other kinds of deixis, so person deixis is the dominant
kind of deixis in the lyrics of Mariah Carey’s songs. The last is the applications of
deixis in lyrics song by Mariah Carey in teaching grammar. The result of this study
is expected to be information for English teachers in teaching grammar and
followed by the teacher to start using new technique in learning process and not
monotone.
