“Deixis Found in “One Piece” Comic”. Skripsi. English Education Department

ABSTRACT

Pramianto, Dimas. 2012. “Deixis Found in “One Piece” Comic”. Skripsi. English Education Department, Teacher Training and Education Faculty, Muria Kudus University. Advisor: (i) Ahdi Riyono, S.S, M.Hum, (ii) Agung Dwi Nurcahyo, S.S, M.Pd.

Key word: deixis and comic

Deixis is very important to be understood by English language learners. It cannot be separated between deixis and language itself, because deixis is a part of language. One of language forms in our environment are comics. It is usually used as media to teach English. Those are why the writer conducts this research.

The objectives of this research can be further detailed as the following; (1) To describe the kinds of English deixis that appears in “One Piece” comic and (2) To describe how English deixis are used in “One Piece” comic.

The design of this research is descriptive qualitative research. It describes deixis found in “One Piece” comic. This research is also aimed to find out kind of deixis found in“One Piece” comic. This research uses the descriptive qualitative research because it does not use research data such as number.

The result of this research are; (1) The kinds of English deixis found in “One Piece” comic are; person deixis that the sum is 426 or 50%. Then, it is discourse deixis that the sum is 255 or 30%. Next, it is place deixis that the sum is 83 or 10%. The fourth is Social deixis that the sum is 53 or 6%. And, the last is time deixis that the sum is 36 or 4%. So, it can be concluded the the dominan deixis which is used in “One Piece” comic is person deixis and the minor deixis is time deixis and (2) The English deixis used in “One Piece” comic are five; person, place, time, discourse and social. So, the theory of deixis analysis from Jaszczolt in 2002 is sticked with the result of deixis found in “One Piace” comic.

This research provides several suggestions. They are; (1) For the students, They are suggested to enrich their knowledge in pragmatics especially in deixis analysis. They can analyze deixis in many kinds of texts in their environments such as articles, novels, short stories or comics in order to develop their understanding. (2) For the lectures, They are suggested to use interesting text to teach pragmatics especially deixis. They can use comics as one of choice be their material in teaching. (3) For the further researchers, They are suggested to develop this research in other field or specify this research be more detail.

CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION

In the first chapter the writer presents the introduction including; Background of the research, Statement of the Problem, Objectives of the research, Significance of the Research, Scope of the Research, and Definition of the terms. This chapter will give the reader the outline of the research.

1.1  Background of the Research

Deixis is very important to be understood by English language learners. It cannot be separated between deixis and language itself, because deixis is a part of language. If the learners study English language, they also study its deixis. Moreover, the learners are unfamiliar with the term “deixis”. But, they are familiar with the term “reference”. It can be understandable because “reference” is the term in semantic; the term is usually used in learning English language, for example: he refers to a man and she refers to a woman. But, “deixis” is the term in pragmatic; the term is unusually used in learning English language, Sutrisno (2010:13).

Jaszczolt (2002:192) explains that deixis is a process whereby words or expressions rely absolutely on context to the language. It means deixis is purposed to elaborate the mean of the words or the phrase which refers to base on the context. It can be said that the function of deixis is to explain the language be understandable by referring the words or the phrases to correct means.

According to Yule (1996:9), Deixis is one of elements of pragmatics. Deixis is a technical term (from Greek) for one of the most basic things we do with utterances (pointing expression). It means pointing via language. Linguistic form used to accomplish this “pointing” is called deictic expression or also sometimes called indexicals. He also explains that there five kinds of deixis, namely; (1) person deixis, (2) place deixis, (3) time deixis, (4) discourse deixis and (5) social deixis. Those are elaborated on the examples below:

Table 1.1 Examples of Deixis

No	Name of Deixis		Examples	Explanations
1	Person Deixis	:	Give me your hand	‘me’ and ‘your’ refer to the person deixis
2	Place Deixis	:	I live around here	‘here’ refers to a place
3	Time Deixis	:	Dimas will go to Semarang tomorrow	‘tomorrow’ refers to the time deixis
4	Discourse Deixis	:	I have heard this story	‘this’ refers to discourse deixis
5	Social Deixis	:	The boss is angry to the employee	‘the’ refers to social deixis

Adapted from Pragmatics by George Yule (1996:15)

From the explanation above, it can be seen that deixis is an important thing which should be undesrtood by us from the language. It means, if the language learners want to understand the language, they should learn about deixis too.

On the other hand, there are two kinds of language; (1) Spoken and (2) Written, according to Cook (2001:115). Spoken refers to the informal language. Some examples of spoken language are speech, script film, conversation and comic. And written refers to formal language. Some examples of written language are letter, news, report and journal. But, the writer only focuses on comic.

In recent year, comic be a popular media in teaching language especially English. Many teachers use comic to teach their students in order to improve the students’ mastery in English. The writer provides some researches which used comics in it, in the table below:

Table 1.2 Example of Researches by Using Comic

No	Title	Year	Writer	Department
1.	The effect of using comic strip on elementary school students’ reading comrehension (SDIT Iqro’ 1 Kota Bengkulu 2009/2010)	2010	Ayi Septriana	FKIP Universitas Bengkulu
2.	Using comic strips to improve the eight grade students' ability in writing narrative texts at SMPN 9 Malang	2011	Norma Indah Lutfifati	Universitas Negeri Malang
3.	The implementation of teaching reading by using  Comic to the second year students of SMP Negeri 11 Surakarta in 2011 / 2012	2012	Gunawan	School of Teacher Training and Education Muhammadiyah University of Surakarta

(Adapted from: www.judul_skripsi.org.id: 8^th August 2012)

Hornby (1987:168) states that comic is a book or a magazine containing stories in the form of drawing. Comic consists of dialogues (utterances) between each character inside of the story. Situation of the story clearly defined by some dialogues (utterances) expressed by the characters. Situation here means about who is speaking in the story, when it happens, where it happens etc. When characters on the story expressing the situation, sure that they are using deixis to express the situation of the story.

According to www.comicbooktherapy.com, one of comic which is very interesting around the readers is ‘one piece’. The readers are very interest to read it because the story is very attractive and has many moral values. It is the story about the reach of pirate to discover the earth ocean. It also contains some values. There are strong friendship, reach, team work, solidarity and hopes. So, the writer is attracted to analyze this comic based the deixis theory.

From the explanation above, the writer conducts this research entitled “Deixis found in ‘One Piece’ comic”. He hopes that his research will be useful for the readers and other researchers in the future.

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