DEIXIS IN OVER THE MOON MOVIE SCRIPT

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to identify the types of deixis used by the character in the Over The Moon movie script, to investigate how the types of deixis used in the movie script, and to explain the reasons for the use of deixis realized in the Over The Moon movie script. This research used a descriptive qualitative ap proach. The data was obtained from the script for the movie Over The Moon. The data consisted of 385 utterances with 1076 deixis. From the data obtained, person deixis occurs 768 times (71%), social deixis occurs 112 times (10%), discourse deixis occurs 75 times (7%), place deixis occurs 65 times (6%), time deixis occurs 56 times (5%). Deixis was realized due to grammatical and structural reasons in the script. Each letter employed deixis to indicate a variable that was dependent on the speaker's intent. Person deixis was the most prevalent sort of deixis since it is used to discuss a person's experience and how they are seen by others.