Abstract:
This study deals with deixis in Islamic children songs by Yusuf Islam. The
objective of the study was to investigate the types of deixis, to explain the
reference meaning of deixis and the reason of using deixis in the lyrics Yusuf
Islam’s Islamic children songs. The method of the study was a qualitative research
which analyze the deixis in the song lyrics by using Alan Cruse’s theory. The
results were, there were 150 deixis found in the whole song which contains all
types of deixis, 104 person which determined as the dominant type deixis use in it,
26 spatial, 14 temporal, 3 discourse, and 3 social. Those refers to the writer,
speaker, listener, and the previous lyrics in the songs. The reasons of those deixis
used the in the lyric Yusuf Islam’s Islamic children song were to inform
something important in the lyrics of the song, to recognize word references in
lyrics song, and to be able to distinguish the types of deixis.
