Deixis Used in Maher Zain’s Song “Number One for Me”
Abstract
Deixis is a part of pragmatics, that studies how to examine phrases or words related to people, location, and times. Likewise, the meaning will be understood if they realized who, where, and when the utterance is uttered. The researchers are interested in analysing the dominant types and types of deixis through the lyrics of Maher Zain’s song, "Number One for Me." In this study, the researchers employed the descriptive qualitative technique. Based on the results from the data analysis, the type of deixis discovered in Maher Zain’s song lyrics is "Number One for Me." Therefore, it can be seen that the percentage use of each type of deixis is 64% for person deixis, 8% for spatial deixis, 19% for temporal deixis, 6% for social deixis, and 3% for discourse deixis. According to the findings and discussions, person deixis is the significant type of Deixis in the lyrics of a song, accounting for 120 words, or 64 percent of the song’s lyrics.
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