Journal of English Education and Teaching (JEET)
Vol. 8 No. 1 (2024): Journal of English Education and Teaching

An Analysis of Deixis in “Beauty and The Beast” Movie Script

Oktazsya Marjelina Lorenza (Unknown)
Safnil Arsyad (Unknown)
Kasmaini Kasmaini (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
15 Mar 2024

Abstract

Deixis has an important role to build the communication process. This research aimed to find out the distribution of scenes, types of deixis are often found and distribution of deixis in all sections of Beauty and The Beast movie script by using Cruse theory (2000). This research used a descriptive qualitative method. The object of this study is Beauty and The Beast movie script by Stephen Chbosky and Evan Spiliotopoulos. Documentation and checklist were used in data collection. The results showed that the distribution of scenes in the Beauty and The Beast movie script are found in the orientation section, complication section, rising action section, turning point section and resolution section. Coda is not found in this movie. Then, person deixis, social deixis and spatial deixis are the most dominant deixis in Beauty and The Beast movie script. Finally, there were five types of deixis in the orientation section, complication section, rising action section, turning point section but there are only two types of deixis that are found in the resolution section in the Beauty and the Beast movie script. It is suggested that English teachers and students should be familiar with the types of deixis in the main section of the movie before using it for the teaching and learning process.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

JEET

Publisher

Subject

Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

Journal of English Education and Teaching (JEET) with online ISSN 2622-5867 is a journal which is published four times a year in December, March, June, and September. We accept mainly research-based articles related to English Education and Teaching. The articles must be in ...