THE USE OF DEIXIS ON THE ENGLISH TEXTBOOK IN AN EFL CONTEXT

Abstract

This study aims to analyze pragmatic deixis in descriptive texts in 7th grade English textbooks. Deixis is an important part of pragmatics which deals with the use of language in certain contexts and situations. The purpose of this study is to identify the types of deixis used in descriptive text and determine the dominant type of deixis as well as knowing the reason why one type of deixis becomes the dominant type in the grade 7 English textbook of Merdeka curriculum in the descriptive part of the text. The research method used is a qualitative descriptive analysis of descriptive texts in grade 7 English textbooks. The data were collected by reading and examining the descriptive texts in the textbook. The results show that there are various types of deixis used in the descriptive text, including personal deixis, temporal deixis, and spatial deixis. However, the dominant type of deixis in the descriptive texts is personal deixis with 41 deixis, while place deixis amounts to 39 deixis, with time deixis 11, Deixis, social deixis 5 deixis, and discourse deixis there are 2 deixis, with a Total of 98 deixis.

Keywords: Pragmatics, Deixis, Descriptive Text, Textbook