Abstract

This research investigates personal deixis that indicate solidarity in campus environment. Students and lecturers conversation transcription were collected and analyzed by the researcher to identify the types of personal pronoun that commonly used to pointer the participants. The result showed that there were three kinds of pronoun used commonly by the participants and those indicate close relationship among others such as first person singular, second person singular, and third person plural. The finding revealed that the second person singular of bro, sist, and jeng are common in pointing speakers’ audience. Eventhough, those become slang language in society. The implication of this research suggested for other types of pronoun to be exist in campus environment and indicate power.

Highlights

  • Language is very essential in human life as an instrument to communicate, express the idea, share knowledge and information

  • Communication practice may be, it constitutes a message-which requires a shared code, communicators who know and use the code, a channel, a setting, a message form, a topic, and event created by transmission of the message(Littlejohn, 2008)

  • Those mean that a speaker ought to capable of distinguishing with whom he speaks to, what the topic talks about, when he speaks, what code

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Introduction

Language is very essential in human life as an instrument to communicate, express the idea, share knowledge and information. Communication practice may be, it constitutes a message-which requires a shared code, communicators who know and use the code, a channel, a setting, a message form, a topic, and event created by transmission of the message(Littlejohn, 2008). Those mean that a speaker ought to capable of distinguishing with whom he speaks to, what the topic talks about, when he speaks, what code. He uses, etc when communicate with others, because those terms will influence the message of communication. There must be a language used for communication

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