Deixis in Inside Sumatera Magazine

This study attempts to investigate deixis found in the articles of Inside Sumatera Magazine, especially in Adventure, Destination and Travelling coloums. It was conducted to discover the types of deixis as proposed by Cruse (2000) namely: person deixis, place deixis, time deixis, discourse deixis, and social deixis. The objectives of this study is to describe type of deixis and to find out the most dominant type of deixis in articles of Inside Sumatera magazine. This study was taken from the article of Inside sumatera magazine and ten article are taken as the samples. Documentary technique is due in collecting data. The findings show that the total number of deixis from the whole articles were 1504 occurrences, 656 occurrences (43.62%) was person deixis, 465 occurrences (30.92%) was place deixis, 227 occurrences (15.09%) was time deixis, 137 occurrences (9.10%) was discourse deixis, and 19 occurrences (1.27%) was social deixis. Person deixis is the dominant type used in those article (43.62%)

ANALYSIS OF NOMINAL GROUP CONSTRUCTION OF THE STUDENTS’ WRITTEN TEXTS

This study focuses on analyzing the nominal group construction of the students’ written texts. Nominal group here refers to a group of words which has a noun (a word which names a person, place or thing) as its head word and includes all additional information related to that noun. This discourse analysis will investigate the types of nominal group construction which is mostly found in the students’ written text and the tendencies of the students in applying the nominal groups in their written texts. The unit analysis of this study is nominal groups written by the students. The students here refer to the fourth semester students of English Department of Tidar University (Universitas Tidar) who join writing class. Following Gerot and Wignell’s theory (1994), most of the students apply Deictic-Ephitet-Thing construction in their texts. Based on the data analysis, it is suggested that the lecturers should introduce various construction of nominal group to the students in order they can write interesting texts (not monotonous)

Bringing historical contexts and language use together, or how to do historical sociopragmatics: Historical sociopragmatics, by J. Culpeper (ed.) (2011)

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Deixis In ‘Aku Kesepian, Sayang. Datanglah, Menjelang Kematian' By Seno Gumira Ajidarma

The researcher interested in analyzing the relevancy of Levinson‟s theory withIndonesian literature, especially short story entitled Aku Kesepian, Sayang. Datanglah,Menjelang Kematian. In this research, there are two problems: (1) what kinds of deixis are usedin Aku Kesepian, Sayang. Datanglah, Menjelang Kematian by Seno Gumira Ajidarma? and (2)what are the meanings of the deictic expressions? The researcher uses a qualitative method sincethe research concerns with the application of language style to the written text. In this study, theresearcher finds that in three short stories, Kyoto Monogatari, Legenda Wongasu, and LayangLayangthere are five types of deixis: person deixis, place deixis, time deixis, discourse deixis,and social deixis

Dimensions of social meaning in post-classical Greek towards an integrated approach

Especially in the first half of the twentieth century, language was viewed as a vehicle for the transmission of facts and ideas. Later on, scholars working in linguistic frameworks such as Functional and Cognitive Linguistics, (Historical) Sociolinguistics and Functional Sociolinguistics, have emphasized the social relevance of language, focusing, for example, on linguistic concepts such as deixis, modality, or honorific language, or embedding larger linguistic patterns in their social contexts, through notions such as register, sociolect, genre, etc. The main aim of this article is to systematize these observations, through an investigation of how the central, though ill-understood notion of “social meaning” can be captured. The starting point for the discussion is the work that has been done in the framework of Systemic Functional Linguistics. This framework distinguishes “social” (“interpersonal”) meaning from two other types of meaning, and offers a typology of different types of contexts with which these different meanings resonate. In order to achieve a more satisfactory account of social meaning, however, I argue that we need to connect to a theory of how signs convey meaning. The discussion is relevant for Ancient Greek in its entirety, but focuses specifically on Post-classical Greek: as a case study, I discuss five private letters from the so-called Theophanes archive

DEICTIC EXPRESSIONS IN THE HOLY BIBLE OF LOCAL NIAS LANGUAGE

This research deals with the deictic expressions in the Holy Bible of local Nias language. The objectives of the study are to discuss and identify the deixis in the Holy Bible.  The research was conducted by using descriptive qualitative design. The data were the epistle of Paul to Philemon which consist of 25 verses. They were collected and analyzed by using a documentation method. The steps were (1) reading the text, (2) finding and marking the deixis, (3) classifying the types of deixis, (4), finding the data, putting sign and making checklist on it, and (5) drawing the conclusions. The results of this research show that there are five types of deixis found in the epistle of Paul to Philemon in the Holy Bible of local Nias language; they are person deixis, spatial deixis, temporal deixis, discourse deixis, and social deixis. The results also show that the deixis mostly found is the person deixis with the frequency of 65 (70%). The following deixis is social deixis that appears 10 times (11%). The discourse deixis appears with the frequency of 9 (10%) while the temporal deixis appears with the frequency of 7 (7%). The deixis that appears the least is spatial deixis with a frequency of 2 (2%)

DEIXIS IN ‘AKU KESEPIAN, SAYANG. DATANGLAH, MENJELANG KEMATIAN’ BY SENO GUMIRA AJIDARMA

The researcher interested in analyzing the relevancy of Levinson‟s theory withIndonesian literature, especially short story entitled Aku Kesepian, Sayang. Datanglah,Menjelang Kematian. In this research, there are two problems: (1) what kinds of deixis are usedin Aku Kesepian, Sayang. Datanglah, Menjelang Kematian by Seno Gumira Ajidarma? and (2)what are the meanings of the deictic expressions? The researcher uses a qualitative method sincethe research concerns with the application of language style to the written text. In this study, theresearcher finds that in three short stories, Kyoto Monogatari, Legenda Wongasu, and LayangLayangthere are five types of deixis: person deixis, place deixis, time deixis, discourse deixis,and social deixis.Keywords: Pragmatics, Deixis, Short Stor

The Modal Adverbs mutlaka and kesinlikle in the Context of Directives and Deontic Modality in Turkish

The study of deontic modality has largely concentrated on the semantics of linguistic forms with little systematic discussion of its connection to pragmatics. This paper aims to sketch a deictic model for describing linguistic form in deontic modality for the purpose of linking linguistic forms to pragmatic usage within a politenesstheoretic perspective. The model is based on the idea that deontic modality may distinguish between deictic centres consisting of the speaker and the ëother.í The model is illustrated in the context of two modal adverbs in Turkish directives, namely ëmutlakaí and ëkesinlikleí. This study examines the adverbs particularly in the expression of prohibition and denial of permission and claims that the differential use of the adverbs may be explained with reference to politeness strategies such that an obligation in Turkish can involve a positive politeness strategy, while a strong prohibition calls for a negative politeness strategy. As such, a positive directive in Turkish can claim common ground by relying on circumstantial support to intensify its meaning (e.g., ëBunu mutlaka yapí), but a prohibition (e.g., Bunu yapma) is a stronger face-threatening act. Prohibition requires an intensification marker that reflects the attitude/judgment of the speaker or others, hence, the grammaticality of ëkesinlikleí.modal adverbs, deontic modality, directives, politeness theory