Deixis Analysis of Drama "Trifles" by Susan Glaspell

Prasasti, Titah Gusti (2023) Deixis Analysis of Drama "Trifles" by Susan Glaspell. Undergraduate (S1) thesis, IAIN Ponorogo.

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Abstract

Language has an important role in human’s communication. The communicative communication happens when all the parties who are included understand what they are talking about. It is because every utterance refers to different things based on the speaker’s meaning. Deixis shows that in order to understand the meaning of the utterance requires contextual information. Drama script is one of the appropriate objects for analyzing deixis. The Trifles drama script by Susan Glaspell which contained deixis is relevant to be chosen as the analysis object. Trifles has direct examples about meaning and context that related to the deixis done by the characters. Hence, this research carries out the research entitled “Deixis Analysis of Drama “Trifles” by Susan Glaspell.
There are two aims of this research. First, this research proposed to analyze the kind of deixis and its referents that are found in the Trifles drama script by Susan Glaspell. Second, the researcher wanted to analyze the dominant type of deixis that found in the Trifles drama script by Susan Glaspell. The data of this research were taken from the drama script. This research limited the analysis based on Levinson theory only.
In conducting this research, the researcher used qualitative research design and descriptive qualitative approach. The data are collected using a documentation method due the form of the object of this research is a written text-based. There are five steps while analyzing the data; reading the dialogues in the script, identifying each deixis, classifying the types of deixis, describing the referents, and making a conclusion.
The researcher found that there are 794 data found that consist of five types of deixis in the Trifles drama script by Susan Glaspell, they are person deixis with 591 data which equal to 74%; time deixis with 32 data which equal to 4%; place deixis with 62 data which equal to 8%; discourse deixis with 52 data which equal to 7% and; social deixis with 57 data which equal to 7% of total data. Each deixis that found is referring to the particular thing based on the context. Also, there is person deixis that identified as the dominant type of deixis found in the Trifles drama script.

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: 04 Dec 2023 07:14
Last Modified: 04 Dec 2023 07:14
URI: http://etheses.iainponorogo.ac.id/id/eprint/26565

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