Abstract:
The study deals with the study of “Deixis in the article of Jakarta Post”. This
study attempts to answer the two formulation of the problems, namely: (1) what
types of deixis are used in the article of the jakarta post, and (2) how are types of
deixis used in the article of jakarta post. This study uses a descriptive qualitative
method to analyze the data in form of document from political articles containing
deixis used in the Jakarta Post. Later the analyzing of the data started from
reading the article of jakarta post and then selecting and marking the utterances
that can be identified as deixis. The result shown in the article of jakarta post
dated on 19 sept 2017 used all types of deixis: Person Deixis 42 (26.41%), Place
Deixis 9 (5.66%), Time Deixis 15 (9.43%), Discourse Deixis 32 (20.12%) and
Social Deixis 61 (38.36%). The researcher suggests the next researcher develop
this research by using different object such as novel, speech and also daily
conversation.
