The Analysis Of Deictic Expression In Danielle Steel’s H.R.H Novel

The purpose of this study is to identify types of deixis (personal deixis, spatial deixis, temporal deixis, discourse deixis, and social deixis) and to describe what those deixis refer to. This study focuses on the use of deixis in H.R.H novel by Danielle Steel. In conducting this study, the writer used the qualitative method as the data categorized to the types of deixis (personal deixis, spatial deixis, temporal deixix, discourse deixis, and social deixis) that describe their referents. The data described refer to the theory of Yule (2010). From the analysis result, the writer found that person deixis is the most dominantly used in the dialogues of H.R.H novel. It was also found that the referents were indicated from the context in each scene since they provide the clue about the referents that the speaker refers to. Keywords: Pragmatics, Qualitative, Personal Deixis, Spatial Deixis, Temporal Deixis, Discourse Deixis, Social Deixis, Reference, Context