Deixis In Reggy Hasibuan’s Utterances In Stand Up Comedy Show

Abstract

This study deals with the types of deixis in Reggy Hasibuan’s utterances in standup comedy show. The objectives of this study are to find out the types of deixis that are used by Reggy Hasibuan, to discover the most dominant type that Reggy Hasibuan dominantly used and to find out the reason of the occurrence of the dominant type. The data of this study was the one selected video taken as the sample. This research was based on descriptive design by applying qualitative method and converting the data numerically. The findings of this study showed that those five types of deixis were found in Reggy Hasibuan’s utterances, they are: person 125 (62.5%), spatial 19 (9.5%), temporal 8 (4%), discourse 35 (17.5%), and social 13 (6.5%). The most dominant type of deixis found is person deixis. Reggy Hasibuan uses person deixis as the most dominant type because: 1) He told and spoke his own experiences in daily life to the audience. 2) Comics or commedians in stand-up comedy show are usually standing and telling their own story, that make the use of personal deixis is more often than other types of deixis in their utterances.