Deixis used in the novel entitled the good muslim by tahmima anam

Siska Purwanti,Artanti Puspita Sari,Rusman Roni

doi:10.29210/021117jpgi0005

Abstract

This research investigated Deixis used in the novel entitled The Good Muslim by Tahmima Anam.This study was conducted to find out; (1) types of deixis contained in utterances of the novel entitled the Good Muslim by Tahmima Anam, (2) types of deixis were used most in the Novel entitled The Good Muslim by Tahmima Anam. Therefore, it gived significant to the author herself, the learners, other researchers and english teachers. The writer used levinson’s theory in analyzing the data. The methodology of this research was qualitative descriptive study. The technique used to collect the data was documentation. The data was taken from 1.972 utterances of the novel entitled the Good Muslim by Tahmima Anam. From the data have been analyzed, it was found that there were five types of deixis, they were person deixis occured 1.723 times (87.4%), place deixis occured 53 times (2.7%), time deixis occured 68 times (3.4%), discourse deixis occured 83 times (4.2 %), person deixis occured 45 times (2.3 %). The most commonly used types of deixis was person deixis occuring 1.723 times (87.4%).

Highlights

This research investigated Deixis used in the novel entitled The Good Muslim by Tahmima Anam.This study was conducted to find out; (1) types of deixis contained in utterances of the novel entitled the Good Muslim by Tahmima Anam, (2) types of deixis were used most in the Novel entitled The Good Muslim by Tahmima Anam
Yule [1] stated that Pragmatics are the analysis of the link between the linguistic forms and the users of these forms
The advantages of pragmatic language learning are that a person speaks about the intended purpose of the people, their assumptions, motivations and priorities and the kinds of behavior they have when talking

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This research investigated Deixis used in the novel entitled The Good Muslim by Tahmima Anam.This study was conducted to find out; (1) types of deixis contained in utterances of the novel entitled the Good Muslim by Tahmima Anam, (2) types of deixis were used most in the Novel entitled The Good Muslim by Tahmima Anam. The speaker is, i.e. the context of the word, the importance of this word cannot be established Expressions such as I, you, we, this, that this, this, all of this, tomorrow are all indexed and the listener must know the speaker and the time and place for the utterance in order to fully understand what is being said and said. Certain phrases are not understood unless people are aware of the utterance meaning, their participants' status, the speaker's purpose, their position and time. These sentences do not mean constantly, and they are referred to as deixis words [3, 4, 5]

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