Abstract:
The aim of this study is to figure out the types of deixis found in contextual
meaning used by protagonist character in the film Moana, to describe the
realization of deixis found in contextual meaning,and the reason why the types of
deixis most dominantly found in contextual meaning. This study using descriptive
qualitative method in analyzing the data. The data was taken from Moana Film
Script. The script consisted of 20 pages and 2 protagonist character were taken as
the data (Moana and Maui). The data were 230 utterances which consist of 147
Moana’s utterances and 83 Maui’s utterances that consist of 875 deixis. From the
data obtained, it was found that Personal deixis, 614 times (70.17%), Social deixis
65 times (7.42%), Textual deixis, 45 times (5.14%), Spatial deixis 135 times
(15.42%), and Temporal deixis 16 times ( 1.82%). In this research, person deixis
is the most dominantly types of deixis used by protagonist character in the film
Moana. The realization of deixis, occured because the story have grammatical and
sytematical reason. Each protagonist characters used deixis for indicating
something which depends on the speaker’s means. The dominant types of deixis
was person deixis because it’s used for talking about their experience and their
adresse of them.
