Deixis Used on “Love Me or Hate Me” How to Stop Caring What Other People Think Podcast by The Self Love Fix

Abstract

This research is about exploring the deixis aspects in the podcast by The Self Love Fix entitled “Love Me or Hate Me” How to Stop Caring What Other People Think. This research has two problems; what are the person deixis, spatial deixis, and temporal deixis found in the podcast; and what are the functions of person deixis, spatial deixis, and temporal deixis found in the podcast. This research aims to found person deixis, spatial deixis, and temporal deixis in a podcast and found out the function and point of deixis mentioned by the speaker in the podcast. Descriptive qualitative method is used in order to analyze the research. The results identified three types of deixis in the data: person deixis, temporal deixis, and spatial deixis. In the midst of three deixis, person deixis is the most mentioned and used in the podcast, followed by spatial deixis and temporal deixis. The data analysis indicates that person deixis is serves to explain the identity of the speaker and the intended referent of the sentences. Spatial deixis is used to coveys locations that is spoke by the speaker. Meanwhile, temporal deixis utilized the time of an occurance in discourse or conversation. According to the theme of the podcast, which pertains to self-improvement and focuses on an individual, this research employs various forms of person deixis. It could be concluded that each types of deixis has its own utilities in conveying the speaker’s purpose.