An Analysis of Deixis Occurred on the Lyrics in Adele’s “Easy on Me, My Little Love, and To Be Loved” Songs

Abstract

This research analyzes the deixis occurred in the song lyrics on Adele's “30” album. The purpose of this research is to determine the types and textual meaning of the song lyrics in the “30” album by Adele. This research is conducted to analyze the types of deixis based on the theory of Cruse (2000) and textual meaning based on the theory of Gerot and Wignell (1994). The researcher used a qualitative analysis method in conducting research, in which the researcher described the types of deixis based on data taken from musicondemand.com. The researcher found five types of deixis used by Adele, namely, personal deixis, spatial deixis, temporal deixis, social deixis, and discourse deixis. The meaning of the deixis is also clearly stated textually because this research uses the semantic domain, where personal deixis refers to first person, second person, and third person. Spatial deixis refers to the location relative to the songwriter. Temporal deixis refers to a certain period of time. Social deixis refers to the social status of participants. Discourse deixis refers to the relationship between the utterance and the previous or next discourse.