DEIXIS IN ‘AKU KESEPIAN, SAYANG. DATANGLAH, MENJELANG KEMATIAN’ BY SENO GUMIRA AJIDARMA (original) (raw)

Deixis is pointing something by using language which the meaning depends on the context. To identify types of deixis, there are some theories that can be used to analyze, one of them is Levinson‟s theory. For that reason, the researcher interested in analyzing the relevancy of Levinson‟s theory with Indonesian literature, especially short story entitled Aku Kesepian, Sayang. Datanglah, Menjelang Kematian. In this research, there are two problems: (1) what kinds of deixis are used in Aku Kesepian, Sayang. Datanglah, Menjelang Kematian by Seno Gumira Ajidarma? and (2) what are the meanings of the deictic expressions? The researcher uses a qualitative method since the research concerns with the application of language style to the written text. The researcher chooses three short stories out of fifteen short stories as her data source. In this study, the researcher finds that in three short stories, Kyoto Monogatari, Legenda Wongasu, and Layang-Layang there are five types of deixis: person deixis, place deixis, time deixis, discourse deixis, and social deixis. The most frequently occurring deixis in Seno Gumira Ajidarma‟s book among the three short stories is discourse deixis by using anaphora to explain information is already mentioned before. The second most frequently occurring deixis is person deixis which the researcher finds that person deixis is used to classify the function of person deixis as a subject, object or possessive pronoun. The third most frequently occurring deixis is social deixis used to respect the elder people and people whose have the higher position than the speaker. After social deixis, the most frequently occurring deixis is place deixis and the last is time deixis. Place deixis among three short stories is used to describe the unspecified location mentioned in the short stories. In other words, time deixis is used to show a particular time happened in the past, present and in the future. The researcher recommends the next researchers are able to use theories concerning deixis written by other authors and using another data, for instance song lyrics, speech, poems, or advertisement.