This study aims to describe the types of deixis used in top five Waldjinah’s popular
keroncong song lyrics and to find out the dominant types also the reason why the type of deixis
is dominantly used. The song lyrics are associated in the study of deixis since they will express
the singer’s or song writer’s feeling and emotion including some expressions of human
thoughts, ideas, opinions, and others.
The descriptive method with qualitative approach was involved to identify the deixis found in
top five Waldjinah’s popular keroncong songs lyrics. The data of this study were obtained from
top five popular keroncong songs lyrics performed by Waldjinah entitled Walang Kekek, Yen
Ing Tawang Ana Lintang, Anoman Obong, Tanjung Perak and Rondo Kempling. There are
some following steps for collecting the data: printing out the lyrics, identifying and classifying
deixis into their types (person deixis, place deixis, time deixis, social deixis, and discourse
deixis), underlining each type, tabulating and calculating the types of deixis to find out the
dominant type and analyzing to find the cause of the most dominant type of deixis.
The findings of this study showed that there were five types of deixis found in top five
Waldjinah’s popular keroncong song lyrics, namely 58 occurrences of person deixis (38.7%),
48 occurrences of spatial or place deixis (32%), 10 occurrences of temporal or time deixis
(6.7%), 9 occurrences of discourse deixis (6%), and 25 occurrences of social deixis (16.7%).
Based on the findings, it can be concluded that person deixis was the most dominant type used
than the other types. It is in accordance with the function of person deixis that mostly deal with
the people interaction. Therefore, the person deixis found in top five Waldjinah’s popular
keroncong song lyrics are used to maintain interaction between Waldjinah as a singer and her
audience during performance. The importance of using person deixis especially in keroncong
song lyrics should be considered by the keroncong song writers. Thus, they are expected to use
many popular deixis so that the young generations as the listeners who will preserve the
keroncong song existence in the future can become more understand even enjoy to hear the
keroncong song