THE ANALYSIS OF DEIXIS FOUND IN LOUISA MAY ALCOTT’S NOVEL LITTLE WOMEN AND ITS APPLICATION IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING

Abstract

The aims of the study is to help the reader understand the text in novel. Deixis shows the important meaning which is expressed the text in the novel. It means that it will be better if the readers understand deixis to discover the meaning in the text. There are three kinds of deixis (person deixis, spatial deixis, and temporal deixis) and describe the use of deixis in the utterance used in Louisa May Alcott’s Novel Little Women. The objective of the study is find out what kinds of deixis, the use mostly dominant of deixis, and the application of teaching English using Deixis. Therefore, this study is qualitative research about deixis found in May Alcott’s Novel Little Women. In collecting the data, the writer choose utterances which are found in May Alcott’s Novel Little Women and classifying all the data from the utterances that contain deixis by using descriptive analysis as technique of data analysis. The result shows that there are 6839 (90,59%) person deixis, 300 (4%) spatial deixis found, and 410 (5%) temporal deixis found. Thus, person deixis are mostly dominant found in Alcott’s Novel Little Women because the speaker mostly operates on basic three part divisionexemplified by the pronouns for first person( I), second person (you) and third person (he, or she) in communicative something (not directly said) about the speaker’s view of his or her relationship with the addressee. Meanwhile, the person deixis found in the utterances in this novel are I, me, you, he, him, she, her, it, we, us, they, them, myself, himself, herself, and ourselves. The spatial deixis found in the novel are from her corner, at home, on the rug, across the room, here and there. Furthermore, the temporal deixis in this novel are for a long time, now, this afternoon, this week, next day, this year, tonight, and tomorrow afternoon. The application of teaching English using Deixis found in Louisa May Alcott’s Novel Little Women is teaching English grammar especially preposition adverb of time. Kind of deixis; temporal deixis can implements to adverb of time in Junior High School at 7 class.

Keywords: Deixis, Novel Little Women, English Language Teaching.