A STUDY OF DEICTICWORDS IN A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM SHORT STORY BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

ABSTRACT

Moh. Muhni. 11.05.111.00047. A Study of Deictic Words in A Misummer Night’s
Dream Short story. Thesis, English Study Program, Department of
Social and Cultural Sciences, Faculty of Social and Cultural Sciences
at University of Trunojoyo Madura. Advisor: Mohammad Halili,
M.Lang,St.
This study to investigate the type and function of deictic word used in short
story by William Shakespeare: Desolation of stories. This methodology of study used
Miles and Huberman (1994) theory.This study was conducted by using descriptive
design. The writer choosed the short story by William Shakespeare Desolation of
Short Stoy as the data and the data is the conversation and the context of the short
story. The data was analyzed and classified based on the type of deictic word and
function deictic proposed by William Shakespeare (2006). This study used content-analysis method as the method of data collection. This study used interactive data
analysis model as the method of analyzing data. In this study, the writer found three
type of deixis word are; person deixis,spatial deixis, and temporal deixis word. The
writer found 21 data, from 21 data collected, 12 data belong to repetition, 3 data
found belong to the first person, 2 data found belong to second person, and7 data
found belong to the third person deixis, the writer found 2 data belong tospatial deixis
and 3 data found on temporal deixis. Furthermore, the functions of deixis which have
found in this study has six those are; referential deixis, emotive dixis, conative deixis,
metalingual deixis, fatis deixis, and poitic deixis. On referential deixis the writer
found (1data), on emotive deixis fuond (1 data), on conative deixis found (1 data), on
metalingual deixis found (1 data) on fatis deixis found (1 data) and on poitic deixis
the writer found (1 data).
Keywords: Analysis, deixis, on Short Story.