THE USE OF DEIXIS IN BASIC WRITING COURSE OF THE FIRST SEMESTER STUDENTS OF ENGLISH STUDY PROGRAM IN PASIM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY: PRAGMATICS STUDY
Abstract
The research entitled The Use of Deixis in Basic Writing Course of the First Semester Students of English Study Program in Pasim National University is purposed to investigate the types of deixis as one of pragmatics study. The research used the theory from Yule (1996) and Levinson (1983). The research method applied is the descriptive qualitative. The source of data was derived from the students’ work of Basic Writing class in the first semester. In addition, the data were collected, classified and analyzed by the writer. The writer found 313 data of deixis. The result shows that 313 data of deixis are divided into 133 data of person deixis, 80 data of time deixis, 75 data of place deixis, 7 data of discourse deixis, and 18 data of social deixis. Thus, the most dominant deixis is person deixis with 42.5%.
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