DEIXIS IN YUSUF ISLAM’S ISLAMIC CHILDREN SONGS: A PRAGMATICS STUD

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.