Analysis of Deixis in Short Story “A Little Match Girl”: Pragmastylistics Study

Ummi Salamah, Ika Octaviani, Nur Alfiana Isnaini

Abstract

This study has purposes to analyze and describe the language style used by Hans Christian Andersen in his short story entitled 'A Little Match Girl' by using pragmatic aspects that are carried out by analyzing deixis components in the story text. This research applied the descriptive qualitative design. By using pragmastylistics theory, this research focuses on the type of deixis used by the author in presenting his story which is then used to reveal the language style of the literary text. The data of this study were collected from deictic words used in the short story. The steps which are used by the researchers are begun from reading, taking notes, analyzing, categorizing and then summarizing the data. The results reveal five kinds of deixis consisting of person, time, place, social and discourse deixis were used in the text. From the data analysis, 97 deixis were found in total with 65 data of person deixis, 4 data of place deixis, 4 data of time deixis, 14 data of social deixis, and 10 data of discourse deixis. Finally, the most frequent deixis found in the short story is the person deixis, especially third-person deixis which indicates that the author of the short story used third-person point of view to convey his ideas in his short story.

 Keywords

Deixis, Stylistics, Pragmatics, Pragmastylistics

 Full Text:

PDF

References

Andersen, H. C. (2015). The little match girl (Vol. 11). Scandinavia Publishing House.

Astria, A., Mujiyanto, J., & Rukmini, D. (2019). The Realization of Deixis in Students’ Writing at Sekolah Tinggi Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan Muhammadiyah Pringsewu Lampung. English Education Journal, 9(4), 517-526.

Asmarita, A., & Haryudin, A. (2019). An Analysis Deixis in Ridwan Kamil’S Speech at the Asia Africa Conference (KAA). PROJECT (Professional Journal of English Education), 2(5), 622-627.

Al-Hindawi, P. F. H. (2018). Pragmastylistics: The Integration of Pragmatics and Stylistics. University of Babylon: College of Education for Human Sciences, 101(24), 113-132.

Ardiana, N. (2016). Analisis Penggunaan Deiksis Tempat dan Waktu Dalam Novel Surga Retak Karya Syahmedi Dean. Bahasa dan sastra Indonesia. Tanjung pinang: Fakultas Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan Universitas Maritim Ali Haji.

Bramanta, B. (2014). The Study Of Deixis Used By The Main Character In The Iron Man 3 Movie Dialogue (Doctoral dissertation, Universitas Brawijaya).

Dylgjeri, A., & Kazazi, L. (2013). Deixis in modern linguistics and outside. Academic Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, 2(4), 87-87.

Hickey,L.(1993).Stylistics, pragmatics and pragmastylistics. Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire, 71(3), 573-586.

Isgoentiar, D. (2012). Deiksis pada Novel Charlotte’s Web Karya EB White: Kajian Pragmatis. Students e-Journal, 1(1), 3.

Julfahnur. (2018). Sudut Pandang Sebagai Unsur Fiksi Karya Sastra. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/P6XYH

Levinson. (1983). Pragmatics. Cambridge university press. Retrieved from https://uogbooks.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/138865467-pragmatics-levinson-1.pdf

Maryanti, D., Sujiana, R., & Wikanengsih, W. (2018). Menganalisis Unsur Intrinsik Cerpen “Katastropa” Karya Han Gagas Sebagai Upaya Menyediakan Bahan Ajar Menulis Teks Cerpen. Parole (Jurnal Pendidikan Bahasa dan Sastra Indonesia), 1(5), 787-792.

Mulyati, M. (2019). Deiksis Sosial Dalam Kumpulan Cerpen Lembah Kehidupan Karya M. Husseyn Umar (Kajian Pragmatik). Jurnal Bindo Sastra, 3(2), 75-82.

Nasution, D. R. A., Setiadi, G., & Ilza, S. S. (2018, July). Deixis Analysis in the Song Lyrics of Ed Sheeran’sDivideAlbum. In English Language and Literature International Conference (ELLiC) Proceedings (Vol. 2, pp. 376-382).

Nurhadi, J., Darmayanti, N., & Sunarni, N. (2013). Figure of Speech in Directive Speech Act of Hypnotherapy: Pragma-Stylistics Analysis. Rhetorics, Forthcoming.

Simpson, Paul. (2003). Language, Ideology and Point of View. USA: Routledge.

Putri, A., & Budiarsa, M. (2018). The Analysis of Deixis in the Novel The Fault In Our Stars by John Green. Humanis, 22(3), 697-703.

Sebastian, D., Diani, I., & Rahayu, N. (2019). Analisis Deiksis Pada Percakapan Mahasiswa Pendidikan Bahasa Indonesia Universitas Bengkulu. Jurnal Ilmiah KORPUS, 3(2), 157-165.

Setiakawanti, R. N., & Susanti, E. (2019). Analysis Pragmatic Study On Deixis In The Articles Jakarta Sport. PROJECT (Professional Journal of English Education), 1(6), 757-762.

Suparno, D. (2015). “Deiksis” dalam Kumpulan Cerpen Al-Kabuus Tinjauan Sosiopragmatik. Buletin Al-Turas, 21(2), 343-364.

Sugiyono. (2008). Metode penelitian pendidikan:(pendekatan kuantitatif, kualitatif dan R & D). Alfabeta.

Tologana, W. (2017). Deiksis Dalam Novel" Assalamualaikum Beijing" Karya Asma Nadia (Suatu Kajian Pragmatik). Jurnal Ektronik Fakultas Sastra Universitas Sam Ratulangi, 4(6).

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25077/vj.10.2.63-71.2021 Copyright (c) 2021 Ummi Salamah -, Ika Octaviani -, Nur Alfiana Isnaini