Deixis used by the main characters in Corpse Bride movie

In daily life, language is unseparateable because language is the main instrument of communications. Language is the mirror of human reality. Human being uses language to express feelings, responded phenomena, and share an idea. Due to this fact, we realize that language has a big deal in understanding the message of communication.

This study is focused on analyzing the conversation expressed by the main characters in Corpse Bride movie using the theory of deixis proposed by Stephen C. Levinson. Deixis is a part of discourse analysis study and concerned with meaning that is inferred from an utterance of sentence but that is not condition for the truth of that utterance or sentence.

The writer uses descriptive qualitative research. The data are in the form of utterances or words from the dialogue of the movie. In the data analysis, the writer uses some process of analysis: categorizing the data which is deixis types, analyzing the data than interpreting the data and the last process is making conclussion from analyzing, interpreting, and discussing process.

The result of study shows that the forms of deixis are person deixis that becomes center deixis of the utterances. Person deixis consists of first person, second person, and third person singular and plural. Place deixis in this movie is uttered when the author wants to show the current location of utterances, and the deixis which is mostly used by the author is time deixis because the sentences and utterances are constructed by the verb tense as the deictic expressions of time deixis.

Based on those findings, the writer suggests the next researcher to make more complete analysis on the same field, because every literary work especially movie has its own uniqueness.