Analysis of Deixis in Short Story “A Little Match Girlâ€: Pragmastylistics Study

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 quali...

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Main Authors: Ummi Salamah, Ika Octaviani, Nur Alfiana Isnaini
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universitas Andalas 2021-11-01
Series:Vivid: Journal of Language and Literature
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Online Access:http://jurnalvivid.fib.unand.ac.id/index.php/vivid/article/view/193
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author Ummi Salamah
Ika Octaviani
Nur Alfiana Isnaini
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Ika Octaviani
Nur Alfiana Isnaini
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description 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.
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spelling doaj.art-4141f77c55404e22acfd3bedd2ddea532024-03-27T01:57:39ZengUniversitas AndalasVivid: Journal of Language and Literature2502-146X2021-11-01102637110.25077/vj.10.2.63-71.2021177Analysis of Deixis in Short Story “A Little Match Girlâ€: Pragmastylistics StudyUmmi Salamah0Ika Octaviani1Nur Alfiana Isnaini2UIN Maulana Malik Ibrahim MalangUIN Maulana Malik Ibrahim MalangUIN Maulana Malik Ibrahim MalangThis 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.http://jurnalvivid.fib.unand.ac.id/index.php/vivid/article/view/193deixis, stylistics, pragmatics, pragmastylistics
spellingShingle Ummi Salamah
Ika Octaviani
Nur Alfiana Isnaini
Analysis of Deixis in Short Story “A Little Match Girlâ€: Pragmastylistics Study
Vivid: Journal of Language and Literature
deixis, stylistics, pragmatics, pragmastylistics
title Analysis of Deixis in Short Story “A Little Match Girlâ€: Pragmastylistics Study
title_full Analysis of Deixis in Short Story “A Little Match Girlâ€: Pragmastylistics Study
title_fullStr Analysis of Deixis in Short Story “A Little Match Girlâ€: Pragmastylistics Study
title_full_unstemmed Analysis of Deixis in Short Story “A Little Match Girlâ€: Pragmastylistics Study
title_short Analysis of Deixis in Short Story “A Little Match Girlâ€: Pragmastylistics Study
title_sort analysis of deixis in short story a€oea little match girla€ pragmastylistics study
topic deixis, stylistics, pragmatics, pragmastylistics
url http://jurnalvivid.fib.unand.ac.id/index.php/vivid/article/view/193
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