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.
