DEIXIS IN TRUMP’S FINAL REMARKS AS PRESIDENT

  • Zakir Hossen Shaikh Faculty, School of Business, Bahrain Polytechnic, Kingdom of Bahrain.
  • Desmalia Purba Lecturer of English Department in Letters Faculty, University of Darma Agung, Indonesia
  • Mihir Ranjan Nayak Dean, Principal, Biju Patnaik Institute of Information Technology and Management Studies Bhubaneswar Odisha, Program offers: MBA, India

Abstract

This study deals with Deixis, a Greek word which means pointing by language. This study aims at finding the types of Deixis used in Trump’s final remarks as president, and finding the types of Deixis most dominantly used in Trump’s final remarks as president. Descriptive qualitative design was applied in this research. Having analyzed the data, the findings of this study are: (a)There are three kinds of deixis found in Trump’s final remarks as president, they are person deixis, time deixis and place deixis; (b) Person deixis is the most dominantly used in Trump’s final remarks as president; 86.86%. The writer suggests that the students should learn Deixis as clear as possible because it is the most fundamental thing that should be mastered and the teacher or instructor of English language can teach the students about Deixis by using many written forms, such as songs’ lyrics, poems, novels, drama’s scripts and others.

Published
Jun 30, 2023
How to Cite
SHAIKH, Zakir Hossen; PURBA, Desmalia; NAYAK, Mihir Ranjan. DEIXIS IN TRUMP’S FINAL REMARKS AS PRESIDENT. Jurnal Darma Agung, [S.l.], v. 31, n. 3, p. 424-433, june 2023. ISSN 2654-3915. Available at: <https://ejurnal.darmaagung.ac.id/index.php/jurnaluda/article/view/3497>. Date accessed: 01 june 2024. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.46930/ojsuda.v31i3.3497.
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