Table Of ContentTHE PERSON AND PLACE DEIXIS
ANALYSIS IN POLITICAL NEWS
ARTICLES OF THE JAKARTA POST
A Thesis Submitted to Letters and Humanities Faculty in Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree of Strata One (S1)
NURHASANAH
109026000046
ENGLISH LETTERS DEPARTMENT
LETTERS AND HUMANITIES FACULTY
STATE ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY SYARIF HIDAYATULLAH
JAKARTA
2013
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ABSTRACT
Nurhasanah, The Person Deixis and Place Deixis Analysis in Political News
Articles of The Jakarta Post. A Thesis: English Letters Department, Adab and
Humanities Faculty, State Islamic University “Syarif Hidayatullah” Jakarta, 2013.
The study is aimed to know the words that are contain person and place
deixis that are written in the political news articles of The Jakarta Post and
analyze the position of person and place deixis in the arrangement of the text. The
writer uses qualitative method to analyze the words of person and place deixis
which contained in political news articles of The Jakarta Post. The research data
were collected from ten texts in edition 20 February 2013; 3 and 6 May 2013; 11,
12, 18 and 19 September 2013; and 20 January 2014, and tabulate them into the
tables.
In the analysis, the writer gets that from 115 numbers of the total of the
data from the ten texts of The Jakarta Post which is found the word of ‘he’ is 68
items, ‘his’ is 41 items, ‘I’ is 29 items, ‘who’ is 2 items, ‘they’ is 12 items, ‘my’ is
10 items, ‘their’ is 12 items, ‘him’ is 10 items, ‘you’ is 7 items, ‘yourselves’ is 1
item, ‘your’ is 1 item, ‘we’ is 9 items, ‘our’ is 3 items , ‘me’ is 5 item, ‘she’ is 9
items, ‘her’ is 13 items, ‘them’ is 4 items, ‘themselves’ is 2 items, ‘himself’ is 5
items, ‘us’ is 3 items, ‘here’ is 7 items, ‘there’ is 1 item, with the total of 254
items consist of 246 items of person deixis and 8 items of place deixis.
The writer gets that 27% of the person deixis which is used is the word of
‘he’ is a kind of third person singular deixis, which refers to person who is being
talked about. Finally, the writer expects her study can be useful for all of the
readers to increase knowledge about deixis, especially the students of English
Letters Department.
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DECLARATION
I hereby declare that this submission is my own work and that, to the best of my
knowledge and belief, it contains no material previously published or written by
another person nor material which to a substantial extent has been accepted for
award of any other degree or diploma of the university or other institute of higher
learning, except where due to acknowledgement has been made in the text.
Jakarta, November 2013
Nurhasanah
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
In the name of Allah the Most Gracious the Most Merciful
First of all, the writer would like to express the most gratitude and praise to
Allah SWT, the Lord of the universe, and His generosity in completing her study
in the State Islamic University Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta. Then, peace and
blessing are upon to our beloved prophet Muhammad SAW and all of his
followers.
The writer would like to express her highest gratitude to her parents, H.
Sukirman and Hj. Turyati for their prayer and support, and for all of their
contribution in the writer’s life in completing the period of her education in State
Islamic University Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta, especially in finishing the thesis.
Therefore, this thesis is dedicated to her parents who always give their love and
spirits during the writer’s life. May Allah SWT bless them.
The writer also would like to express her gratitude to the persons who had
helping in finishing this thesis and for their contribution in process of writing until
it had become a complete work. They are as follows:
1. Dr. H. Abd. Wahid Hasyim, M. Ag, the Dean of Adab and Humanities
Faculty.
2. Drs. H. Abdul Hamid, M. Ed , the writer’s thesis advisor for his
knowledge and personal guidance which have been provided for
completing this thesis.
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3. Drs. Asep Saefuddin, M. Pd, the Head of English Letters Department and
Elve Oktafiyani, M. Hum, the Secretary of English Letters Department.
4. All lecturers of English Letters Department who have taught and educated
her very well during her study in State Islamic University Syarif
Hidayatullah Jakarta.
5. Her beloved husband, Agung Prabowo, who always accompanies and
gives his full supportin process of writing this thesis. The writer’s family,
my sisters (Nurhidayah, Nurjanah, Nuraminah, and Nurrohmah) for their
support in completing her study.
6. The Academic Staff of Adab and Humanities Faculty, the librarians of
State Islamic University Syarif Hidayatullah, the librarians of Atmajaya
University, and Indonesian University.
7. All of her beloved friends in State Islamic University Syarif Hidayatullah
Jakarta, especially in B class and Linguistics class: Sarah, Nayah, Yuni,
Indira, Jamal, Tika, Desi, Ojan, Nabila, Nurul, Niam, Fitri, thanks for the
friendship and kindness.
8. All the people who have helped the writer during the process of
conducting the research whose names are not mentioned here.
Finally, may Allah SWT, the Almighty and the Merciful,bless them all. The writer
realizes that this research is still far from being perfect. Therefore, suggestions
and criticisms will be accepted for the improvement for the thesis.
Jakarta, November 2013
The Writer
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
ABSTRACT .................................................................................................. i
APPROVEMENT ........................................................................................ ii
LEGALIZATION ........................................................................................ iii
DECLARATION .......................................................................................... iv
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ........................................................................... v
TABLE OF CONTENTS ............................................................................. vii
LIST OF TABLES ....................................................................................... ix
CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION
A. Background of the Study .................................................................... 1
B. Focus of the Study .............................................................................. 4
C. Research Question .............................................................................. 4
D. Significance of the Study ................................................................... 4
E. Research Methodology....................................................................... 5
1. The Objective of the Research ............................................... 5
2. The Method of the Research .................................................. 5
3. Data Analysis Technique ....................................................... 5
4. Instrument of the Research..................................................... 6
5. Units of Analysis .................................................................... 6
6. Time and Place of the Research ............................................. 6
CHAPTER II. THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
A. Semantics ........................................................................................... 7
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1. Definition of Semantics.......................................................... 7
2. Lexical and Grammatical Semantics ...................................... 9
B. English Pronoun and Deictic .............................................................. 11
C. Deixis ................................................................................................. 15
1. Definition of Deixis................................................................ 15
2. Types of Deixis ...................................................................... 16
3. Person Deixis ......................................................................... 18
4. Place Deixis ............................................................................ 21
D. Anaphora and Cataphora .................................................................... 22
1. Functions ................................................................................ 22
2. The ways of usage .................................................................. 22
E. Discourse ............................................................................................ 24
1. Definition and Types of Discourse ........................................ 24
CHAPTER III. RESEARCH FINDINGS .................................................. 27
A. Data Description................................................................................. 27
B. Data Analysis ..................................................................................... 33
CHAPTER IV. CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION ............................ 75
A. Conclusion ......................................................................................... 75
B. Suggestion .......................................................................................... 76
BIBLIOGRAPHY ........................................................................................ 78
APPENDICES .............................................................................................. 80
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LIST OF TABLE
Table 1. Table of data from person deixis in the text entitled “Dahlan, Gita
told not to put Cabinet posts at risk” …….………………………………… 27
Table 2. Table of data from person deixis in the text entitled “Yudhoyono
addresses presidential contenders” ………………….……………………… 28
Table 3. Table of data from person deixis in the text entitled “Dems remove
Anas’ loyalists from top positions”………………….……………………… 28
Table 4. Table of data from person deixis in the text entitled “Aburizal’s
presidential candidacy safe, for now” ……………………………………… 29
Table 5. Table of data from person deixis in the text entitled “PM, opposition
hold second day of talks” ..………………………………………………… 29
Table 6. Table of data from person deixis in the text entitled “Syria crisis: A
glance at presidents, precedents” …...……………………………………… 30
Table 7. Table of data from person deixis in the text entitled “Dahlan accused
of politicking during May Day rally”.…………………………………….… 30
Table 8. Table of data from person deixis in the text entitled “Yudhoyono
should not slow down, must focus on transition” …………………….….… 31
Table 9. Table of data from person deixis in the text entitled “PPP actress
candidate causes smiles, for all wrong reasons” ……...……………….…… 31
Table 10. Table of data from person deixis in the text entitled “President
calls on people to shun dirty politics ahead of 2014 polls” ...……………… 32
Table 11. Table of data from place deixis in each article ...…………..…… 33
