DEIXIS ANALYSIS IN THE SONG LYRICS OF LANY’S ALBUM
Abstract
This study is examined the pragmatics aspect of deixis in the lyrics of Lany’s
Album. Deixis describes linguistic elements which specifically refer to the spatial,
temporal and personal aspects of a speech. Lany is one of the most well-known
singer in the world which has several albums and one of the popular album is A
Beautiful Blur. This study was applied descriptive qualitative method. The source of
the data were two of lyrics from Lany’s Album. The data were collected by
documenting and taking note. After collecting the data, the researcher analyzed the
data by classifying the types of deixis based on Levinson’s theory person deixis,
temporal deixis, spatial deixis, social deixis and discourse deixis. The results of this
study indicated that 1) there are three types of deixis used in two of songs from
Lany’s Album; person deixis, temporal deixis, spatial deixis and social deixis, 2) the
dominant types of deixis which found by the researcher in those songs was person
deixis.
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