Analysis of Deixis in The 12 Angry Men Drama Script by Reginald Rose

Abstract

One of the biggest problems in communication that could happen to the speaker and hearer is when both parties experience miscommunication about the meaning of the words that are related to the context of the situation. This study focused on deixis in “The 12 Angry Men” drama by Reginald Rose, because the plot of the story occurs in daily life, and drama script is one of the appropriate objects for analyzing dexis because the sentences in the drama script belong to spoken language. The data of this research were taken from Reginald Rose’s drama script which were taken fromher drama “The 12 Angry Men” included 12 juror’s conversation. The result of this paper is the types of deixis found in the drama script of The 12 Angry Men by Reginald Rose are Personal Deixis, Temporal Deixis, Spatial Deixis and Social Deixis. The function of each deixis found in the drama script of The 12 Angry Men by Reginald Rose are personal deixis which refers to role of participant and addressee in the drama, Temporal deixis gives the information about the moment of the utterance in a context that is happened, Spatial deixis is to know the distance about the speech situation between the participants happened, and the last is social deixis to show the social status of the person included relational social or absolute social deixis.