This study is about discourse deixis. The main aims of this study are; (1) to
identify the linguistic indicators showing the discourse deixis found in the story, and (2)
to describe the relation between one discourse and the other discourse. The data are
taken from the short story “The Elf of the Rose” by Hans Christian Andersen (1892).
The techniques of collecting the data are observation and documentation.
Technique of analyzing the data refers to the theories of; reading by Cline (2006),
identifying by Golden (2017), and describing the data. The underlying theory used in
this study is a theory about discourse deixis by Evelyn Hatch (1992).
The result shows that: (1) the linguistic indicators showing the discourse deixis
are such as follow; prepositional phrase (38,46%) is the most dominant linguistic
indicator showing the discourse deixis found in the story, while sentence (23,07%) is
the second linguistic indicator which is dominant in the story. Both of adverbial clause
of place and adverbial clause of time have the same percentage (15,38%) as the third
linguistic indicator which is dominant in the story, and adverbial phrase of time (7,69%)
has the least percentage as linguistic indicator which is found in the story. (2) There are
13 events found in the story and there are relations between one event and the others related by showing time and place or location. The researcher underlined that discourse
deixis is not only the words this, that, those, these, and then, but discourse deixis is a
linguistic indicators which is connecting one previous event and the next event, where
there is a relation between one discourse and the other discourse
