DEIXIS IN JAKARTA POST NEWSPAPER

This study attempts to investigate deixis found in the feature columns in Jakarta Post Newspaper. It was conducted to discover the types of deixis as proposed by Levinson (2004) namely: person deixis, place deixis, time deixis, discourse deixis, and social deixis. The objectives of this study are to describe the types of deixis, to find out the most dominant types of deixis, and to understand why the types of deixis are the most dominantly used in Jakarta Post Newspaper especially in feature columns. This study was taken from the feature column of Jakarta Post Newspaper and ten features are taken as the samples. Documentary technique is due in collecting data. The finding show that the total number of deixis from whole features were 833 occurrences, 442 occurrences (53,06%) was person deixis, 205 occurrences (24,61%) was place deixis, 104 occurrences (12,49%) was time deixis, 77 occurrences (9,24%) was discourse deixis, and 5 occurrences (0,6%) was social deixis. Person deixis is the dominant type used in those features (53,06%).