Name : M.

Rizal Akbar Zamzami

NIM : 08320093

Subject : Discourse Analysis

DEIXIS

Deixis is a technical term (from Greek) for one of the most basic things deals with
utterances. Simply, it has a meaning “pointing” via language or asserting something via
language. There are four types of deixis, they are:

1. Deictic or indexical expressions. This deixis is to “pointing” or to indicate something in

the immediate context. There are two kinds of deictic based on the speaker’s location.
Those are near speaker or proximal terms (the word are “this”, “here”, “now”) and away
from speaker or distal terms ( the words are “that”, “there”, “then”). Proximal terms are
typically interpreted in terms of the speaker’s location, or the deictic centre. Distal terms
simply indicate ‘away from speaker’, it can be used to distinguish between ‘near
addressees’ and ‘away from speaker addressee’.

2. Person deixis: clearly operates on a basic three part divisions. They are pronouns in
English. In person deixis the expression that indicate higher status called honorifics. The
circumstances that lead to the choice of one of these forms rather than another is called
social deixis.

3. Spatial deixis: the simply definition of which is the concept of distance already
mentioned is obviously relevance spatial deixis, where the relative location of people and
things is being indicated. Contemporary English makes use of only two adverbs, ‘here’
and ‘there’, for the basic signal of spatial deixis. Spatial deixis usually is called
psychological distance.

4. Temporal deixis is pointing language via time. One basic type of temporal deixis in
English is in the choice of the verb tense. Whereas other language have many different
forms of the verb as different tenses, English has only two basic forms, the present and
past which is symbolized by the words now (present) and then (past).