A Pragmatic Study on Deixis in the Song's Lyric of Deen Squad Album

This thesis entitled “A Pragmatic Study on Deixis in the Song's Lyric of Deen Squad Album”. This study tries to analyze types of deixis and the reference meaning of the song lyrics. The research questions on this study are to find types of deixis, the dominant types of deixis and the reference meanings of deixis in the song lyrics of Deen Squad Album. This study can be analyzed by using pragmatic approach based on Alan Cruse theory to answer the research questions. The data gained are from ten songs of Deen Squad Album and then they are classified into the types of deixis based on their own criteria. The researcher selects Deen Squad Album as the subject of the analysis because the popularity of the song and also it consists of deictic words that has reference meanings. The result of this study found that the types of deixis like person deixis, spatial deixis, temporal deixis and social deixis are used in the songs. In this research, the four types of deixis occur in every song of Deen Squad Album and the most dominant type is personal deixis.