Deixis Analysis in The Online Article Entitled “K-Pop’s BTS Snag Top Prize at American Music Awards”

Abstract

Deixis is one type of pragmatics that must be learned by people who study languages. The purpose of the study is to analyze the kind of deixis in an online newspaper at the Jakarta Post entitled “K-pop's BTS snag top prize at American Music Awards.” The research focuses on analyzing three kinds of deixis, including person deixis, spatial deixis, and temporal deixis. Qualitative descriptive is the method chosen for this research. Schreier (2012) cited in Simanjuntak et, al. (2021) stated the data collection process was carried out by a) finding the online newspaper b) choosing the online newspaper c) analyzing and reading the text by categorizing it by type of deixis d) underlining the word that is included in deixis. The results obtained indicate that personal deixis is the most used kind of deixis with 17 times (they (2) we (1) it (1) he (1) she (3) her (3) I (3)), while for spatial deixis 3 times (this (2) here (1)), and temporal deixis 7 times (have (2) here (1) night (1) year (3)), with a total of 24 times. From the results, it can be concluded that the online newspaper is written from a third-person point of view because the most widely used person deixis is third-person deixis. Meanwhile, spatial and temporal deixis is not used too much.