DEIXIS ANALYSIS OF THE BOSS BABY MOVIE SCRIPT BY TOM MCGRATH

Sholekah, Ekawati (2022) DEIXIS ANALYSIS OF THE BOSS BABY MOVIE SCRIPT BY TOM MCGRATH. Undergraduate (S1) thesis, IAIN Ponorogo.

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Abstract

Language plays an important role in our daily lives because people in this world need to communicate with each other. Every utterance refers to different things based on the speaker’s meaning. Deixis shows the phenomenon where understanding the meaning of certain words and phrases in an utterance requires contextual information. Movie script is one of the appropriate objects for analyzing deixis. The Boss Baby is the appropriate movie to analyze deixis because this movie contains deictic words. So in this research, the researcher carries out the research entitled “An Analysis of Deixis in The Boss Baby Movie Script by McGrath”.
The objective of this research is to identify the type of deixis found in The Boss Baby Movie Script by Tom McGrath. The data took from the movie script. This research only focused on Levinson theory.
In conducting this research, the researcher used the qualitative research design, and the approach used by the researcher is descriptive qualitative. In analyzing the data, the researcher uses six steps, and those are: utilizing, sampling, coding, reducing, inferring and narrating.
The result of this research showed that five types of deixis are found in The Boss Baby Movie Script by Tom McGrath, which are: 493 utterances containing deixis in the boss baby movie. The researcher found 444 utterances (90%) containing personal deixis in “The Boss Baby” Movie Script. That are 3 utterances (1%) which conduct Time deixis. That are 20 utterances that categories as place deixis, the percentage use of this deixis is 4%. The researcher found 8 utterances (2%) containing discourse deixis. Meanwhile, the social deixis contains 18 utterances, and the percentage use of this deixis is(3%).
Based on the result, it can be concluded that types of deixis that is often used in The Boss Baby Movie Script by Tom McGrath and this type of deixis is more dominant in personal deixis. Due to the fact that deixis is important to indicate impermanent reference, English learners should enrich themselves by understanding the function of deixis, the types of deixis and how deixis are used in an utterance.

Item Type: Thesis (Undergraduate (S1))
Thesis Supervisor: AHMAD NADHIF
Subjects: 13 EDUCATION > 1399 Other Education > 139999 Education not elsewhere classified
Divisions: Fakultas Ilmu Tarbiyah dan Keguruan > Jurusan Tadris Bahasa Inggris
Depositing User: Miss Perpustakaan IAIN Ponorogo
Date Deposited: 28 Nov 2022 06:30
Last Modified: 28 Nov 2022 06:30
URI: http://etheses.iainponorogo.ac.id/id/eprint/22025

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