| dc.description.abstract | This study is about the forms and reference of deixis used in “Gladiator” movie
manuscript. The data, movie discourse, are taken from observation and documentation
using techniques of reading, identifying, and noting. The data source is “Gladiator”
movie manuscript. To identify the forms of deixis, the writer used the theory of
deixis in Discourse Analysis while to clarifying the reference of deixis, the writer used
the theory of meaning focusing on both semantic and pragmatic meaning. The result
of study shows that the forms of deixis are person deixis, place deixis, time deixis,
discourse deixis and social deixis. Person deixis consists of first person, second person,
and third person singular and plural. It is also distinguished based on its function
in the sentence as subject and object personal pronoun, subject in possessive personal
pronoun, object in possessive personal pronoun and reflexive personal pronoun.
The reference of deixis based on semantic meaning refers to lexical meaning
while based on pragmatic meaning refers to the meaning covered in the discourse,
such as referring to the interlocutors, the war, the time process during the war, and
the social relationship among the participants in the war. | en_US |
