Person Deixis Used by Donald Trump in The Announce of Candidacy for President of The United States on June 16th 2015

Reni, Novita (2020) Person Deixis Used by Donald Trump in The Announce of Candidacy for President of The United States on June 16th 2015. Diploma thesis, Universitas Andalas.

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Abstract

This research is discussed about the deictic expressions used by Donald Trump in his speech when announcing his candidacy for the President of the United States. The aim of this research is to classify the types of person deixis and to analyze the referential meaning of person deixis in his speech on June 16th 2015. The data were taken from the Donald Trump’s video of presidential election announcement. The data were collected with classifying the deictic expression based on the types of person deixis. In doing the research, the writer uses some theories to support the research, includes the theory of types of person deixis from Yule (1996), the theory of reference from Yule (1996), and the theory of context from Cutting (2002). In doing the analysis, the writer adds the speech, which is classified in paragraphs and the table of deictic expressions. In the result of the analysis, the writer uses the table of the percentage to show the tendency of the use of person deixis in the speech and the table of references from deictic expression. The result of the analysis shows that Donald Trump uses three types of person deixis. The deictic expressions include the first person deixis of I, me, my, mine, our, we, us, and ourselves with the percentage of 60.76%. Then, the second person deixis consists of you, your, and yourself with the percentage of 11.15%. Last, the third person deixis consist of the pronoun of he, him, she, his, them, they, their, themselves, and those with the percentage of 28.09%. From the data analysis, first, the writer found that first person deixis as the dominant of person deixis that is used by Donald Trump in his presidential candidacy announcement. Second, the reference that is used by Donald Trump in this speech has different references based on the types of person deixis and the context of the utterance. Keywords: Context, Deixis, Person Deixis, Reference.

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