Deixis of Headlines Published by kompas during general election 2004

ABSTRACT

This study is focused on analyzing the headlines of Kompas using deixis theory of Stephent c. Levinson. Deixis is a part of discourse analysis study and concerned with meaning inferred from an utterance or sentence. Deixis makes discourse easier and more effective in giving a means to pass more information in less time. The headline is the core of information in a newspaper and often conveyed implicity. Based on that background, the research on deixis used in the headlines of Kompas was conducted with the problem ،،how is the deixis of headlines published by Kompas during general election 20047"

This research was conducted using descriptive qualitative method to get descriptive knowledge on how the deixis of headlines published by Kompas during general election based on Levinson theory. The data were in the forms of utterances or words in the headlines which were selected from the newspapers published from March to April 2004.

The result of the study shows five kinds of deixis, namely person, place, time, discourse and social deixis. The first person deixis are used when journalist wants to show the speakers who produce the utterance in the headline while the third person deixis are expressed when the journalist wants to show the people who do not refer to the speaker or addressee. Place deixis are used to describe a location relative to the location of participant in speech event, as well as have been shown in the context. Time deixis is used to point the certain period of time when journalist shows the utterances used by the speaker and also the time of event. In addition, discourse dexis is used to refer to some portion of discourse that contains the utterance as a signal and its relation to surrounding text. Furthermore, social deixis is used to indicate the distinct social roles between participants.

Based on the findings, it is suggested to the journalist to consider the words or utterances that will be presented in the headlines in order that the inference being conveyed is easily understood by the readers. In addition,it is also recommended for next researcher to conduct researches on the daily conversations and in any literary work.