Abstract
This paper is entitled The Use of Deixis in Julia Gillard’s Speech on Commemoration of Bali Bombing Victims in Garuda Wisnu Kencana Cultural Park, Bali. This research is aimed at analyzing the deixis used in the speech text by the Australia’s Prime Minister, Julia Gillard using Levinson’s theory. In conducting research, this study used qualitative method in which the study describes the types of deixis in which the data were taken from the Australian Minister website. Then identifying and classifying the deixis used in the speech text. The last step was analyzing the data supported by the concept of Levinson. From all the data analysis taken from the speech text delivered by Julia Gillard, this study found the types of deixis such as person deixis, time deixis, place deixis, discourse deixis, and social deixis. This study also found some deixis in one sentence which help the speaker and the audience understand the utterance better. This study suggests the students in the future to use the other part such as analyzing an interview, conference, novels, and the like. Finally, such a big hope for this study could be useful to sharpen the reader in understanding deixis.
Highlights
IntroductionDiscourse can be presented by two structural types; they are dialogue and monologue
Background of the StudyBasically, discourse can be presented by two structural types; they are dialogue and monologue
The text was downloaded from the website 3 pages long. This data source was chosen because the text itself consists of some types of deixis needed in this study
Summary
Discourse can be presented by two structural types; they are dialogue and monologue. Monologue or narrative is a discourse produced by only one participant and associated with the activities of writing and reading (Hatch, 1992: 209). When people use monologue or narrative the writer or the speaker is often confused to transfer the exact meaning of what they want to say. Much of the meaning is understood by looking at and perceiving what is hidden behind the linguistic markers that have a pointing ‘function’ in a given discourse context (Hatch, 1992). The writer and speaker can use a way in which the relationship between language and context is reflected in the structures of languages themselves, through the phenomenon of deixis. Levinson (1983:54) states that deixis is concerned with the way in which languages encode or grammaticalize features of the context of utterance or speech event, and it is concerned with the ways in which the interpretation of utterances depend on the analysis of that context of utterance
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