Contextual Meaning On Deixis Used By Protagonist Character In The Film

Abstract

The aim of this study is to figure out the types of deixis found in contextual meaning used by protagonist character in the film Moana, to describe the realization of deixis found in contextual meaning,and the reason why the types of deixis most dominantly found in contextual meaning. This study using descriptive qualitative method in analyzing the data. The data was taken from Moana Film Script. The script consisted of 20 pages and 2 protagonist character were taken as the data (Moana and Maui). The data were 230 utterances which consist of 147 Moana’s utterances and 83 Maui’s utterances that consist of 875 deixis. From the data obtained, it was found that Personal deixis, 614 times (70.17%), Social deixis 65 times (7.42%), Textual deixis, 45 times (5.14%), Spatial deixis 135 times (15.42%), and Temporal deixis 16 times ( 1.82%). In this research, person deixis is the most dominantly types of deixis used by protagonist character in the film Moana. The realization of deixis, occured because the story have grammatical and sytematical reason. Each protagonist characters used deixis for indicating something which depends on the speaker’s means. The dominant types of deixis was person deixis because it’s used for talking about their experience and their adresse of them.