Waldatul Mualamah, 2201418180 (2022) A PRAGMATIC STUDY ON DEIXIS IN THE SONG LYRICS OF “IT'S BETTER IF YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND” ALBUM BY BRUNO MARS. Under Graduates thesis, Unnes.

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Abstract

This study is aimed to analyze the type of deixis and dominant used in the song lyrics of “It’s Better If You Don’t Understand” album by Bruno Mars using George Yule’s (1996) theory. The objective in this study is to find out the deixis and the dominant type used in the song lyrics. In this research, the researcher used descriptive qualitative method to analyze the data. The data of this research was taken from listening to the song, looking for the lyrics of the song on the internet, determine some words in each lyric of the songs that included in the deictic expression. After that, the researcher analyzed the song lyrics script using three types of deixis of Yule’s theory. Based on data analysis, the result of the study showed that there are 306 words found that contain the three types of deixis such as person deixis, spatial deixis, and temporal deixis. The most dominant type of deixis in this research is person deixis with 215 data (70%), spatial deixis with 78 data (26%), and temporal deixis with 13 data (4%). The songwriter used person deixis as the most dominant on the album because almost all of the songs in the album is about somebody who loves somebody. Moreover, the use of person deixis is to indicate the participant in this song, spatial deixis is to indicate the location or place of event from the participant, and temporal deixis indicate the time of event from the participants

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