An Analysis of Deixis in Poem On the Pulse of Morning by Maya Angelou

Abstract

The research is about deixis as one of pragmatics field. The aim of this research is to analyze five
types of deixis and describe the reference meaning of deixis are found in poem On the Pulse of
Morning by Maya Angelou. In analysis, this research uses theory of Levinson about deixis in
1983. The research method used is qualitative method. The result shows the most dominant deixis
used is person deixis which is the second person. There are 41 utterances of second person deixis
(you, your, yours, yourself, yourselves) that used in Maya Angelou’s On the Pulse of Morning
poem. This research can be useful for the reader to understand about deixis and for the next
researcher who are interested in studying pragmatics to make other pragmatics field such as in
implicature, speech acts, entailments or presupposition.
Keywords : pragmatics, deixis, reference, poem