Abstract
Deixis is a human language phenomenon in which particular expression referential depends on context use (Williams, 2019). By knowing deixis, a speaker knows alternate reference words depending on the interlocutor, places and time conversation takes place. The study investigates deixis and its context used by diplomats and representatives from Indonesia, Silvany Pasaribu of human rights cases of Vanuatu and Papua. This study's data source was the comment speech of an Indonesian diplomat, consisting of three types of deixis based on Levinson's theory. The video was collected from YouTube. Further, to analyse the data through several processes, the researchers firstly collected all deictic expressions found in transcription, classified the deictic word into each category of deixis. The result of this study shows thirty five deixis from comment speech of Indonesian diplomat. There were twenty three personal deixis consisting of a first, second, and third person, seven spatial deixis, and five temporal deixis. Person deixis generally be delivered by person grammatical type, which replaces personal pronoun encode like community, appropriate names, and the individual pronoun compound. Spatial or place deixis based on result which expresses by the speaker on their speech were location. Temporal deixis is used to the pointing of time context speech. Further research is suggested to analyze all kinds of deixis, such as social deixis and its context.
Highlights
Language is a sound and word system that has a pivotal role in human life, such as sharing and communicating (Lunenburg, 2010)
Based on the comment speech which delivered by Indonesian diplomat, thirty-five kind of deixis were found
It is related to Wiguna et al (2018) the person deixis generally convey by person grammatical type, which replaces personal pronoun encode likes community, appropriate names, and compound of the personal pronoun
Summary
Language is a sound and word system that has a pivotal role in human life, such as sharing and communicating (Lunenburg, 2010). Communication is the way to deliver ideas, experiences, and arguments with each other. There are several particular ways of communication, namely spoken and written. It needs contextually understanding through pragmatic theory. There are various scopes of language in linguistics, such as morphology, phonology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. The study of meaning between the speaker and written belongs to pragmatic. Pragmatics is the study of meaning which explains the external structure (Saeed, 2009)
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