DEIXIS IN THE READERS’ FORUM OF THE
JAKARTA POST NEWSPAPER
	THESIS 	

Presented to 
State Islamic College of Tulungagung in partial fulfillment of the 
requirements for the degree of Sarjana Pendidikan Islam in English 
Education Program 

BY:
Lina Kurniyati
NIM. 3213073063

ENGLISH EDUCATION PROGRAM 
DEPARTMENT OF ISLAMIC EDUCATION  
STATE ISLAMIC COLLEGE
 (STAIN) TULUNGAGUNG
July 2011
ADVISOR’S APPROVAL SHEET

This is to certify that the Sarjana’s thesis of “Deixis in the Readers’ Forum of the Jakarta Post Newspaper” written by Lina Kurniyati has been approved by the thesis advisor for further approval by the board of examiners.

Tulungagung, 30 Juni 2011
         	Advisor

Nurul Chojimah, M.Pd
NIP. 19690629 200901 2 001

LEGITIMATION FROM THE BOARD OF THESIS EXAMINERS
This is to certify that the Sarjana’s thesis of Lina Kurniyati has been approved by the Board of Examiners as the requirement for the degree of Sarjana Pendidikan Islam in English Education Program
Board of Thesis Examiners

Chair,							Secretary,

Dr. Mashudi M.Pd.I		                                     Nurul Chojimah.M.Pd
NIP.19690131 200122 1 0003	                       NIP.19690629	 200901 2 001   								
    Main Examiner,

Sukarsono.M.Pd
NIP.19710514 200501 1 002
Tulungagung, July 20 2011

Approved by
The Chief of STAIN Tulungagung

				Dr. MAFTUKHIN, M.Ag.
NIP. 196707172000031002

MOTTO
 “THE PROCESS TO BE SUCCESSFUL WILL ALWAYS BE DIFFICULT, BUT IT WILL BE MORE DIFFCULT IF WE CANNOT BE SUCCESSFUL PERSON”

DECLARATION OF AUTHORSHIP

Name				: Lina Kurniyati
Sex				: Female
Place, Date of Birthday	: Kotabumi, 18th of January 1990
Address			: Koripan, Bangsongan, Kayekidul, Kediri
Department	: English Education Program of    STAINTulungagung
Program			: English Education Program
Registered Number		: 3213073063
Religion			: Moslem
Phone Number		: 085648032600
State that thesis “DEIXIS IN THE READERS’ FORUM OF THE “JAKARTA POST" NEWSPAPER” is truly my original work, it doesn’t incorporate any material previously written or published by another person except those indicated in quotation and bibliography. Due to the fact, I’m the only person responsible for the thesis any injections or claim from other.

DEDICATION
This thesis  dedication to…
•	My beloved Daddy (Imam Maftuh) and my Mom (Istiqomah) thanks for their endless great love, finance in my study,care, trust and pray. Their love is my power and my inspiration. May Allah bless you, Amiiiin.
•	My beloved sisters (Musbirotul Wafiroh and Putri Dini Muhibbah) who have given me cares, supports and always stand by me.
 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
The  writer would like to thank to Allah The Beneficent and Merciful, so the writer can accomplish her thesis entitles “An Analysis of Deixis in the Readers’ Forum of the  Jakarta Post Newspaper”
The writer would like to express her deepest gratitude to:
1.	Dr. Maftukhin, M.Ag., As the head of State College for Islamic Studies Tulungagung who gives permission for the writer to find out the data as report of the research.
2.	Miss. Nurul Chojimah, M.Pd., as advisor who has given her valuable guidance and suggestion sincerely and patient during the progress of writing this thesis.
3.	My English teachers (Mr. Basuni, Mr. Samsu, Mr. Sukarsono, Mr. Waluyo,  Miss Arina, Miss Nanik, Miss Nani, Miss Laila, Miss Faizah, Miss Erna, Miss Ema) who give me knowledge.
4.	All of lectures at STAIN Tulungagung.
5.	My beloved parents and my big family in Kediri who give me love, attention, supporting my finance and moral all the time.
6.	All of my friends, who always help and motivate live in finishing this thesis.
Finally, I truly realize that this thesis still needs the constructive criticism and suggestion from the readers in order to make it perfect and hopefully it can be useful for the readers, especially for the English Letter and Language Departement students.

	Tulungagung, 30 Juni 2011
Writer 

Lina Kurniyati

TABLE OF CONTENT

Cover..........................................................................................................................
Advisor’s Approval Sheet........................................................................................
Legitimation from Board of Examiners.................................................................
Motto..........................................................................................................................
Declaration of Authorship.......................................................................................
Dedication..................................................................................................................
Acknowledgement.....................................................................................................
Table of Content……………………………………………………………………
List of  Diagram and Tables....................................................................................
List of Appendices....................................................................................................
Abstract…………………………………………………………………………….

CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION
1.1	Background....................................................................................................
1.2	Problem of the Study......................................................................................
1.3	Objective of the Study....................................................................................
1.4	Significance of the Study................................................................................
1.5	Scope and Limitation of the Study.................................................................
1.6	Definition of Key Term……………………………………………………...

CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURES
2.1	Discourse Analysis.........................................................................................
2.2 Reference…………………………………………………………………...
2.2	Inference………………………………………………................................
2.3	Deixis…………………………………………………………………….....
 2.4.1 Person Deixis………………………………………………………..
                        2.4.1.1 First Person Deixis.............................................................................
2.4.1.2	Second Person Deixis………………………………………………
2.4.2	Place Deixis…………………………………………….............................
2.4.3	Time Deixis……………………………………………………………….
               2.4.4    Social Deixis………………………………………………………
               2.4.5    Discourse Deixis………………………………………………….. 	
CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHOD
3.1	Research Design............................................................................................
3.2	Data and Source of Data...............................................................................
3.3	Population and Sample..................................................................................
3.4	Method and Instrument of Data Collection..................................................
3.5	Technique of Data Analysis..........................................................................

CHAPTER IV RESEARCH FINDINGS
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Research Findings.........................................................................................
4.2	Discussion.....................................................................................................

CHAPTER VI CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION
A.	Conclusion......................................................................................................
B.	Suggestion.......................................................................................................
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LIST OF DIAGRAM AND TABLE
Table types of deixis in the readers’ forum Jakarta Post…………………	31
Table 4.1 The Frequency of occurrence of deixis types………………..	41
Table 4.2 The Frequency of occurrence of deixis types……………….	43
Table 4.3 The Frequency of occurrence of deixis types……………….	46
Table 4.4 The Frequency of occurrence of deixis types……………….	48	
Table 4.5 The Frequency of occurrence of deixis types……………….	52
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Table 4.7 The Frequency of occurrence of deixis types……………….	56
Table 4.8 The Frequency of occurrence of deixis types……………….	57
Table 4.9 The Frequency of occurrence of deixis types……………….	59
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Table 4.11 The Frequency of occurrence of deixis types……………...	61

LIST OF APPENDICES
Appendix	1	: Data from internet
Appendix 	2	: Certificate of authorship
Appendix 	3	: Curriculum vitae
Appendix 	4	: Guidance card
Appendix 	5 	: Keterangan pembimbing

ABSTRACT
Kurniyati, Lina, Registered Student. 3213073063. 2011. Deixis used in the Readers’ Forum of the Jakarta Post Newspaper. Thesis English Education Program, STAIN Tulungagung. Advisor: Nurul Chojimah M.Pd, 2011
Key Word : Deixis, Readers’ forum of Jakarta Post  
Every utterance is made in a particular place, at particular time and it occurs in a certain situation. It is made by a particular person (the speaker) and it is usually addressed in some other persons (the listener). The speaker and the listener are subject and object as a crucial centre because both of them have multiple roles in utterance. Deixis is a part of discourse analysis which is concerning to the context of utterance referring to who is speaking, the time or place of speaking, the gestures of the speaker or the current location of the discourse. (Levinson: 1983). The readers’ forum is one of column which contains some opinions and comment and it covers many issues that are up to date. It also contains some opinion and comment with its various forms of someone’s opinion from every perspective side live such as education perspective. This study is aimed at finding out what deixis expressions are used in the readers’ forum of the Jakarta Post Newspaper. This research was conducted by using quantitative descriptive method, it is because the data are the form of number and words such as description of deixis used in readers’ forum and also because of the writer choosed the print media (Jakarta Post Newspaper) as object of the research. And the analyzed data were in the forms of words or utterance in the readers’ forum of Jakarta Post which publish from January to Mei 2011 in certain topic, it is education.
The research findings show that there are five kinds deixis, namely person deixis, place deixis, time deixis, social deixis, discourse deixis. Time deixis is appeared to point the certain period of time when the utterance is produced the speaker and even occurs. Place deixis is realized to describe a location relative to location of participant in speech event, as well as have been shown in the context, likewise, the person deixis is used when the speaker shown the inspirations to the addressee. Moreover, there is social deixis which is shown to indicate the social absolute relation. Most of the writers in the readers’ forum used the relational social deixis because they assume that we have the same social status. While the last term, it is discourse deixis which is used for the purpose of referring not to the sentence which is spoken but the purpose behind of the statement made by speaker. The percentage of deixis usage in readers’ forum of Jakarta post are: Person deixis is the one which reached great level than another, it means was used by 23 times or 40%. The next is time deixis usage which was in the second level. And discourse deixis was also being in the same level with time deixis. Both were used 13 times or 22%. While place deixis was used by 7 times or 12% from the whole. And the most rarely used deixis is social deixis type, it was just used by twice or 4%.

	It is recommended to the next research who are interested in deixis to analyze the relation between grammatical cases and deixis. For the readers, they are suggested to understand every aspect which is used to understand deixis and make more complete analyses on the same field to avoid the misconstruction especially in comments. 

ABSTRAK
Kurniyati, Lina, registed Mahasiswa. 3213073063. 2011. Deixis digunakan dalam Forum Pembaca 'dari koran Jakarta Post. Tesis Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris Program, Tulungagung STAIN. Penasihat: Nurul Chojimah M. Pd, 2011
Kata Kunci: Deixis,	Pembaca forum JakartaPost
Setiap ucapan dibuat dalam tempat tertentu, pada waktu tertentu dan itu terjadi dalam situasi tertentu. Hal ini dilakukan oleh orang tertentu (pembicara) dan biasanya ditujukan pada beberapa orang lain (pendengar). Pembicara dan pendengar adalah subyek dan obyek sebagai pusat yang penting karena keduanya memiliki peran ganda dalam ucapan. Deixis merupakan bagian dari analisis wacana yang berkaitan dengan konteks ucapan yang mengacu pada pembicara, waktu atau tempat berbicara, gerak tubuh pembicara atau lokasi saat wacana. (Levinson: 1983). Forum pembaca adalah salah satu kolom yang berisi beberapa pendapat dan komentar serta mencakup berbagai isu yang up to date. Forum ini juga berisi beberapa pendapat dan komentar dengan berbagai bentuk pendapat seseorang dari setiap sisi perspektif hidup seperti perspektif pendidikan. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui tipe deixis apa saja yang digunakan dalam forum pembaca dari koran Jakarta Post. Penelitian ini diadakan dengan menggunakan kuantitative deskriptif metode, ini karena data dalam bentuk angka kemudian menggunakan kata untuk mendiskripsikan forum pembaca yang menggunakan deixis dan karena peneliti memilih media cetak (Koran Jakarta Post) sebagai objek sebagai penelitian. Dan data yang dianalisa berupa kata-kata atau ucapan dalam forum pembaca dari Jakarta Post yang diterbitkan dari Januari hingga Mei 2011 dengan topik tertentu, yaitu pendidikan.
Temuan penelitian menunjukkan bahwa ada lima macam deixis, deixis yaitu orang, deixis tempat, deixis waktu, deixis sosial, deixis wacana. Deixis Waktu digunakan untuk menunjukkan waktu tertentu ketika ucapan diucapkan oleh pembicara dan saat peristiwa terjadi. Deixis Tempat direalisasikan untuk menggambarkan lokasi yang behubungan terhadap lokasi para peserta dalam sebuah  pembicaraan, sebagaimana telah ditunjukkan dalam konteks, demikian juga person deixis digunakan ketika pembicara mengutarakan pemikirannya kepada penerima. Selain itu, ada juga sosial deixis yang digunakan untuk menunjukkan hubungan sosial yang mutlak. Sebagian besar penulis di forum pembaca menggunakan deixis sosial karena penulis berasumsi bahwa kita memiliki status sosial yang sama. Sedangkan istilah terakhirnya adalah discourse deixis yang digunakan untuk tujuan rujukan, yang tidak mengacu pada kalimat yang diucapkan, tetapi tujuan di balik pernyataan yang dibuat oleh pembicara untuk	ucapan	kalimat.presentasi deixis yang di gunakan dalam forum pembaca Koran Jakarta post adalah person deixis adalah satu-satunya yang mencapai level tertinggi dari pada yang lain, ini berarti yang di gunakan sebanyak 23 kali atau 40%. Selanjutnya adalah time deixis yang di gunakan menempati level kedua dan discourse deixis juga menempati level yang sama dengan time deixis.keduanya di gunakan sebanyak 13 kali atau 22%. Sementara place deixis di gunakan sebanyak 7 kali atau  12% dari total keseluruhan yang ada dan deixis yang di gunakan paling sedikit adalah tipe social deixis, ini hanya di gunakan sebanyak 2 kali atau 4%. 
Disarankan untuk para peneliti selanjutnya yang tertarik pada deixis untuk menganalisis hubungan antara kasus gramatikal dan deixis. Untuk pembaca, mereka disarankan untuk memahami setiap aspek yang digunakan untuk memahami dan membuat analisis deixis lebih lengkap pada bidang yang sama untuk menghindari salah tafsiran terutama di komentar.