Deixis in Elemental Movie

Abstract

The present study is aimed at identifying the types of deixis used by Ember and Bernie (dad’s Ember) as the character in the Elemental movie. Further, this present study is also aimed at finding out the most dominant deixis as well as the reason for using the deixis. This research employed Levinson’s (1983) theory to analyze the deixis used by characters in Elemental movie. The researcher used the qualitative descriptive method. The present study took Ember and Bernie’s utterances as the source of data. Interactive model of analysis, as suggested by Miles and Huberman (1994), is used to analyze the data. The results showed that person deixis was the most frequently type of deixis found, amount of 299 which means 72% of the total result, followed by spatial/place deixis in 55 data (13%), social deixis in 29 data (7%), temporal deixis in 25 data (6%) and discourse deixis in 5 data(1%). To sum up, the person deixis become the most dominant one used by the characters. The reason for using deixis was to make it easy in person, time, place, social, and discourse.