English Deixis in Picture Storybooks for Children

Nafi'ah, Allyda Ulfa and Indah, Rohmani Nur and Toyyibah, Toyyibah (2021) English Deixis in Picture Storybooks for Children. Wanastra : Jurnal Bahasa dan Sastra, 13 (1). pp. 60-65. ISSN P-ISSN 2086-6151; E-ISSN 2579-3438

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Abstract

Deictic expression is a noticeable item in linguistic studies to recognize the meaning of a specific context. Thus, pragmatic analysis in this research is to find five kinds of deixis those are: personal deixis (first, second, and third person deixis), place deixis, time deixis, social deixis and discourse deixis. The theory that is used in this research is the theory of deixis by Levinson (1983). The present study investigates the use of Deictic expression in five children picture storybook. The titles of each book are Reba wants ice cream, Gappu can't dance, Bunty and Bubbly, A new pet in the family, and under my bed. This study employed descriptive qualitative research design. On the types of deixis found in the children story books, the finding shows that in all the data, personal deixis is the most identifiable type of deixis. Some pattern of the deixis types in children storybooks cover the word; I, now, there, this, and mother which were found in the sentences of the story.

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	20 LANGUAGE, COMMUNICATION AND CULTURE > 2004 Linguistics > 200401 Applied Linguistics and Educational Linguistics
Divisions:	Dosen IAIN Kediri
Depositing User:	Muhamad Hamim
Date Deposited:	05 Jan 2022 03:49
Last Modified:	05 Jan 2022 03:49
URI:	http://repository.iainkediri.ac.id/id/eprint/608

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