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This study analyzes the function of deixis in building emotional relationships between characters in the short film "Seutas Kenangan" using a sociopragmatic approach. Besides being a medium for communication, language also functions as a medium for expressing distance, closeness, and social relationships that impact the emotional relationships that occur. Therefore, this study aims to examine how various types of deixis play a role in building emotional relationships between characters. The method used in this study is descriptive qualitative with data in the form of dialogues obtained through listening and note-taking techniques. This analysis was conducted by identifying the types of deixis, analyzing sociopragmatic aspects, and then interpreting the emotional relationships created. Based on the results of the study, there are deixis of person, time, place, social, and discourse that are related in representing emotional relationships. The emotional relationships found in this analysis include affection, longing, inner conflict, avoidance, and emotional stress due to prevailing social norms. The relationship between the function of deixis and the sociopragmatic approach shows that the function of deixis is not merely a referent indicator, but can also be a strategy for representing emotional relationships influenced by social and cultural conditions.

This study analyzes the function of deixis in building emotional relationships between characters in the short film "Seutas Kenangan" using a sociopragmatic approach. Besides being a medium for communication, language also functions as a medium for expressing distance, closeness, and social relationships that impact the emotional relationships that occur. Therefore, this study aims to examine how various types of deixis play a role in building emotional relationships between characters. The method used in this study is descriptive qualitative with data in the form of dialogues obtained through listening and note-taking techniques. This analysis was conducted by identifying the types of deixis, analyzing sociopragmatic aspects, and then interpreting the emotional relationships created. Based on the results of the study, there are deixis of person, time, place, social, and discourse that are related in representing emotional relationships. The emotional relationships found in this analysis include affection, longing, inner conflict, avoidance, and emotional stress due to prevailing social norms. The relationship between the function of deixis and the sociopragmatic approach shows that the function of deixis is not merely a referent indicator, but can also be a strategy for representing emotional relationships influenced by social and cultural conditions.

This study aims to examine the use of deixis in the film Habibie and Ainun (2012) through a pragmatic approach and to explore its implications for character education. The research employs a descriptive qualitative method by analyzing utterances containing personal, spatial, temporal, discourse, and social deixis in the main characters’ dialogues. The data were obtained through transcription and contextual interpretation to uncover the pragmatic meanings embedded in the linguistic expressions. The findings reveal that deixis functions not only as a linguistic reference marker but also as a medium for expressing and reinforcing character values such as loyalty, responsibility, perseverance, and love. The contextual use of language in the film reflects the process of moral formation and emotional depth, demonstrating how language contributes to shaping character development. This study contributes to the development of Indonesian language learning by emphasizing the integration of pragmatic analysis and character education through film media. Therefore, it is recommended that language educators utilize educational films containing pragmatic elements as effective learning resources to enhance both linguistic competence and moral awareness among students.

Education is important because it provides knowledge and skills that are essential for self-development, character building, improving people's lives, and contributing to the progress of the nation and state. YouTube is a platform used by many people for entertainment and to relieve boredom. YouTube also offers a wide variety of videos and content, ranging from video blogs, entertainment videos, music, to educational videos. Pragmatics is a study that focuses more on what the speaker wants to convey through their speech, not just studying the meaning of words or phrases separately. In pragmatics, there are several terms of speech act analysis, implicature, deictics, presupposition, and politeness. In this study, the researcher analyzed the pragmatics of deictics. The research is titled “Pragmatic Deixis in the Booklist Playlist on Maudy Ayunda's YouTube Channel.” The researcher found three types of deixis, including 163 instances of personal deixis, 5 instances of place deixis, and 2 instances of time deixis. The research method used was qualitative description.

This research explores the use of person deixis in the Balinese language, with a particular focus on the honorific system as a form of social interaction. Person deixis not only reflects the relationship between the speaker and the interlocutor but also serves as a key mechanism for expressing social status, age, and emotional closeness. This research addresses the question: Does the choice of deictic forms involve specific cognitive processes, such as the assessment of social status, politeness, and situational context?  Beside that, this research also discuss what factors most influence the choice of personal pronouns used in dialogue? Employing a descriptive-qualitative approach and analyzing data from Balinese narrative texts, this article examines how the selection of deictic expressions engages complex cognitive mechanisms. The findings reveal that the use of honorifics is not merely a linguistic practice but also influences speakers’ patterns of thought in interpreting and evaluating social relationships. These results support the notion that language and thought are closely interconnected, and that the structure of the Balinese language cultivates a high degree of social sensitivity in its speakers from an early age.

This research analyzes the speech acts used by the student community at Universitas Negeri Medan in both academic and social interactions. Speech acts are the smallest components in communication that determine the meaning or intention of an utterance as conveyed by the speaker in accordance with a specific context or condition. The communication context consists of social contexts, which refer to the relationship between the speaker and the interlocutor. The purpose of this study is to identify the forms, principles, implicatures, deixis, and how various communication contexts influence the choice of speech acts and linguistic politeness. The methodology employed in this study combines methodological and theoretical approaches. The methodological approach is descriptive qualitative, while the theoretical approach applies pragmatic perspectives supported by literature review. The research methods include observation, interviews, audio recordings, transcription, and literature study by analyzing relevant sources. The findings reveal that in social interactions, students more frequently employ expressive and commissive speech acts to build and express emotions. Factors influencing this include situational context, the impact of media and technology, relationships with interlocutors, and cultural background. The study concludes that understanding speech acts is crucial for improving communication effectiveness among students in both academic and social settings. The implications of this research can be applied to the development of better communication strategies in educational environments and to enhance students’ awareness of polite and contextually appropriate language use.

This study looks at the deixis used in the commercial "Garuda Indonesia For A Better Life," emphasizing how it works and how it affects the story. In advertising, deixis, a basic language characteristic, is vital in determining meaning and audience involvement. The study classifies and examines the personal, geographical, and temporal deixis used in advertising using Yule's deixis paradigm. To investigate how deixis creates meaning, encourages emotional connection, and strengthens the commercial's persuasive appeals court, data were gathered through document examination of the advertisement text using a descriptive qualitative technique. The results show that first-person deixis is more common, which has consequences for our comprehension of customer behavior and the efficacy of advertising tactics.

This study aims to analyze the pragmatic aspects and persuasive strategies in a public service advertisement entitled "Throw Trash in Its Place. The Earth is Not Your Trash Can." This study uses a pragmatic approach with a focus on the theory of speech acts, implicature, deixis, and politeness of language to reveal how to convey messages effectively and persuasively in the context of public communication. The advertisement is analyzed as a form of directive communication that aims to encourage changes in people's behavior towards issues of cleanliness and environmental concern. The results of the analysis show that this advertisement utilizes strong but polite directive speech acts, normative implicatures to instill values, the use of personal deixis to build closeness with the audience, and positive and negative politeness strategies to maintain social relations. Thus, advertisements not only function as a medium for conveying information, but also as an instrument for forming collective awareness through a communicative approach that is contextual, efficient, and emotionally and rationally appealing to its audience.  

This study aims to analyze the forms and functions of deixis in the novel Drama Vendetta by Intanera. The focus of the research includes five types of deixis: personal, spatial (place), temporal (time), social, and discourse deixis. Personal deixis is used to reveal the identities of characters and the relationships between speaker and listener within the narrative. Spatial deixis indicates locations that are emotionally and narratively significant to the characters, while temporal deixis reflects shifts between past, present, and future that shape the story’s emotional and structural flow. Social deixis highlights status differences, emotional distance, and levels of formality in character interactions. Meanwhile, discourse deixis serves to maintain cohesion and continuity within the text by referring to elements mentioned elsewhere in the narrative. This research employs a qualitative descriptive method with data collected through reading and note-taking techniques. The findings show that Intanera uses various types of deixis strategically to enrich narrative structure, express psychological conflict, and establish social relationships and emotional meaning throughout the novel. This study is expected to contribute to the fields of pragmatic linguistics and discourse analysis in literary texts.

This study aims to analyze the pragmatic functions of deixis in six selected songs from Ariana Grande’s Eternal Sunshine album. Using Levinson’s (1983) theory of deixis, the study identifies and classifies five types of deictic expressions: person, time, place, discourse, and social deixis. The study employs a descriptive qualitative method and uses documentation as its main data collection technique. A total of 306  deixis  were found: 228 person  deixis, 33 time deixis, 16  place deixis, 19 discourse deixis, and 11  social deixis. The dominant use of person  deixis demonstrates the strong self-expression and emotional engagement of the singer.  Time and discourse deixis help shape the emotional timeline of the narrative, while  place  and social deixis reflect interpersonal distance and roles. The findings reveal that deixis functions not only to maintain textual cohesion but also as a pragmatic tool to construct intimacy, express identity, and evoke emotional resonance in the lyrics.

This study analyzed the use of deixis in the lyrics of Arctic Monkeys' AM album to understand its contribution to narrative meaning and emotional connection with listeners. The purpose of the study was to explore how linguistic elements, particularly deixis, function as pragmatic tools in popular music. Using Levinson's (1983) theory, the study identified five types of deixis: persona, spatial, temporal, social, and discourse. The analysis examined their functions in the pragmatic context of song lyrics. According to the rules, the results showed a dominant pattern of person deixis, which strengthened the emotional connection between the narrator and the listener. Additionally, temporal and spatial deixis enriched the narrative by emphasizing time and place contexts. These findings suggested that linguistic elements in song lyrics reinforced emotional and narrative experiences. This study concluded that deixis contributed significantly to enhancing listeners' emotional and narrative engagement, offering valuable insights into the use of language in creative media such as music and the broader study of pragmatics.

Research aims to analyze the use of deixis in Rafi Bastos’ stand-up comedy video titled “USA vs Brazil”. This study examines the types of deixis used, such as person, time, place, discourse, and social deixis according to Levinson’s theory. To collecting the data, this study using a descriptive qualitative method. The analysis shows that person and discourse deixis are the most frequently use types, reflecting a comedy style based on personal narrative and story context. This study provides the insight into the importance of deixis in pragmatic communication and how adjustments to cultural and social contexts can influence international comedy.

This research investigates the role of context in pragmatic interpretation, focusing on how context influences the understanding of meaning in communication. By examining various aspects such as implicature, deixis, presuppositions, and speech acts, the study highlights how speakers and listeners navigate meaning through contextual clues. The research employs a qualitative approach, gathering data from real-life interactions, including interviews and observations. Findings reveal that context is not just a passive backdrop but an active participant in shaping meaning, particularly in intercultural communication. This study emphasizes the dynamic nature of context and its indispensable role in pragmatic interpretation, offering insights for language teaching, intercultural communication, and artificial intelligence applications.

Deixis is a field of pragmatic study that discusses the relationship between language structures. and where the language is spoken. The use of the term "deixis" is being observed or noticed in this context. Most often seen in daily conversation is in the form of spoken language. Found in character dialogue in literary works such as films. The study entitled "Variations of Charm Deixis and Time Deixis in the Short Story Smokol by Nukila Akmal" examines the use of various charm deixis and time deixis by Nukila Akmal. Person and time deixis are part of the variety of deixis studied in this research. Researchers use analytical methods in the form of pragmatics with qualitative techniques to analyze the data that has been collected. The data used in this research include fragments of speech from short story conversations, both words and phrases that contain deixis, including: charm deixis and time deixis. The reading-note method of capturing data, recognizing, categorizing, analyzing, formulating and presenting data are the stages of analysis in this research. Data analysis illustrates that a short story written by Nukila Akmal with the title Smokol has a deixis of charm and time.

Deixis is a pragmatic study that examines the relationship between language structure and the context of the situation in which it is used. The phenomenon of deixis can be found in everyday conversation in the form of verbal language as well as in literary works such as films or novels. In literary texts, deixis can pose an obstacle to understanding the text. The research entitled "Analysis of Deixis in the Short Stories 'Rembulan di Mata Ibu' and 'A Piece of Love in Silence' by Asma Nadia" aims to analyze the use of deixis in two short stories by Asma Nadia: "Rembulan di Mata Ibu" and "A Piece of Love in Silence." The method used in this research is a qualitative descriptive method. The data collection technique involved carefully reading and noting elements in the short stories. The data used consists of text fragments thought to contain deictic elements, including personal deixis, time deixis, place deixis, discourse deixis, and social deixis. Based on the results of data collection, 55 instances of personal deixis, 17 instances of time deixis, 11 instances of place deixis, 50 instances of discourse deixis, and 4 instances of social deixis were found. Thus, the total number of deictic instances is 137. It is hoped that this research will contribute significantly to the understanding of the use of deixis in literary works and help the public better comprehend the meanings and messages contained in such works.    

Language is a set of communication tools humans use to facilitate human life and carry out social interactions through oral and written communication. Pragmatics as a branch of semiotics and as a field of linguistic study, has one of the topics in the form of deixis, which is always present in communication and needs to be understood to answer confusion and obscurity. This article describes the use of deixis in literary works in the short story collection Setangkai Melati di Sayap Jibril. This study will analyze four titles of short stories for the use of deixis language: Sebatang Kayu, Mengapa Ayah Selalu Membuat Ibu Menangis, Matahari Menari, Rembulan Bergoyang, and Belimbing. Then, the approach used by researchers to analyze the short stories is theoretical in the form of a pragmatic approach and a methodological approach in the form of a descriptive-qualitative approach. Meanwhile, the data collection used in this research is the literature study, listening, and note-taking techniques. The data analysis technique used in this study is a split technique, while the method of presenting the results of data analysis uses the informal method. Based on the analysis that has been done, 1.108 deixis data are obtained in the form of social deixis (204), discourse deixis (187), persona deixis (520), place deixis (115), and time deixis (82). Therefore, writing the short stories in Setangkai Melati di Sayap Jibril is inseparable from using deixis.

This research aims to describe the use of deixis in literary works, especially short stories. The use of deixis is quite important in the process of interaction and communication, including in short stories which are quite dense in writing because they are related to indicating something and leading to certain references or points of reference and are bound by the context of the utterance. The data for this research is in the form of deixis data originating from the short story "It is forbidden to sing in the bathroom" by Senoo Gumira Ajidarma. The research method used is content analysis with stages of data collection, sample determination, data recording, data reduction, drawing conclusions from the data, and deictic analysis contained in the short story. The research results include six sentences for first person deixis, one sentence for third person deixis or more than one. In existence there is one sentence. In the discourse diexis there are three sentences, and in the social diexis there is also one conversational sentence.

This research aims to describe the use of deixis in literary works, especially short stories. The use of deixis is quite important in the process of interaction and communication, including in short stories which are quite dense in writing because they are related to indicating something and leading to certain references or points of reference and are bound by the context of the utterance. The data for this research is in the form of deixis data originating from the short story "It is forbidden to sing in the bathroom" by Senoo Gumira Ajidarma. The research method used is content analysis with stages of data collection, sample determination, data recording, data reduction, drawing conclusions from the data, and deictic analysis contained in the short story. The research results include six sentences for first person deixis, one sentence for third person deixis or more than one. In existence there is one sentence. In the discourse diexis there are three sentences, and in the social diexis there is also one conversational sentence.

Deixis is a word that has a referent or reference that changes depending on who is speaking and the context of the conversation. Deixis can also be useful in direct or verbal communication activities. Examples of the benefits of deixis in indirect communication can be realized in literary works in the form of novels. In connection with the research to be conducted, the researcher chose the novel Rembulan sinks in your face as the research subject. Therefore, this research wants to examine the types, forms and functions of deixis as well as the use of deixis in the novel "Rembulan sinks on your face" by Tere Liye for Indonesian language learning. The data in this research are dialogues containing deixis in the novel Rembulan sinking on your face by Tere Liye, which was published in December 2006 with 400 pages. The data analysis technique used in the research is a qualitative descriptive method. Based on the research that the researchers have conducted in the novel Rembulan sinking in your face by Tere Liye, the author can conclude that there are several types of deixis in the novel Rembulan Tenggelam in Your Face, namely, place deixis, pointing deixis, persona deixis, time deixis, and social deicsis.  

This research aims to determine the use of deixis in the novel entitled "12 Stories of Glen Anggara" by Luluk HF and its implications for novel learning. This research focuses on looking for elements of persona deixis, time deixis, space or place deixis, and social deixis in the novel "12 stories of Glen Anggara". The main problem of this research is to look for the use of deixis in the content of the novel entitled "12 stories of Glen Anggara" in detail in pragmatic studies. The researcher also aims to have implications for the results of deictic analysis in the novel "12 Stories of Glen Anggara" in learning novels in high school. This research is descriptive research using a qualitative approach with the type of research used is content analysis techniques. The results of this research found that many deictic elements were used in the novel "12 Stories Glen Anggra" by Luluk HF. The tendency for the deictic elements contained in this novel is persona deixis because the novel writer tends to bring up characterization elements followed by time deixis, indicating deixis, place deixis, and social deixis.