A discourse analysis on the deixis used in ‘Indonesia This Morning’ news program of Metro TV website

This study focuses on types of deixis proposed by Anderson and Keenan theory. Deixis is one part of discourse analysis study, which is distinguished into three categories, namely: person deixis, spatial deixis and temporal deixis. Usually in communication especially in the form of written text people as human being are inseparable from making errors in perception or opinion when they facing into understanding some form of information. So, if this study are used or applied in communication which function to understand the written or the oral text, the communication can go smoothly.

This research uses a descriptive qualitative research design in which the data are in the form of sentences taken from “Indonesia This Morning” News Program of Metro TV Website in a hot news column. The reason of chosing this program is because it is one of English language program focusing on the day’s top national and international issues. Furthermore, the sentence in this column has much information and it consists of much type of deixis.

Based on the findings of this research, the temporal deixis often appears since the writer wants to express the time when the event occurs. And followed by person deixis that is devided into three types of person deixis in which the third person mainly used, then followed by the first person. The second person deixis not found. Meanwhile, the spatial deixis is rarely used since the writer wants to describe a location relative to the location of a participant in the speech event typically the speaker, as well as the ones that have been shown in the context.

Finally, the writer hopes to the next researcher to use the other part such as analyzing in formal report or interview, speech text, conference, and the like. It is also recommended to students or readers to pay more attention on the use of the second person deixis since it is not found in formal report like this.