ANALYSIS OF DEIXIS USED IN AN AMERICAN-SIGN LANGUAGE MOVIE ENTITLED ‘A QUIET PLACE’

Abstract

This study employed descriptive qualitative research that aimed to investigate the use of deixis and its frequency in ‘A Quiet Place’ movie as the most popular movie tagged with keyword ‘American-sign-language’. This research used Levinson’s theory about deixis types to analyse the data. The result shows that there are 47 total amount of deixis used with 33 person deixis, 3 spatial deixis, 4 temporal deixis, 3 discourse deixis, and 4 social deixis. Moreover, person deixis placed as the most dominant type used with total amount 33. Meanwhile, spatial deixis and discourse deixis are the least deixis used with total amount 3 for each type. It implies that the use of deixis cannot be separated from human’s communication process in any kind of form. Both verbal and non-verbal communication included deixis as the part in understanding the context of the communication.