DEIXIS IN X (2014) ALBUM OF ED SHEERAN’S SONG

This thesis deals with the kinds of deixis in X (2014) Album of Ed Sheeran’s Song. The objectives of the study were to describe the dominant kinds of Deixis, to find out the dominant kinds of deixis in X (2014) Album of Ed Sheeran’s Song and to find out the reason why it is dominant. This research was conducted by using descriptive qualitative research. The data were the transcript of Ed Sheeran’s Song. The findings showed that there were 1202 utterances which contained five kinds of deixis, namely: 746 person deixis (62.1%), 111 spatial deixis (9.2%), 157 temporal deixis (13.1%), 108 discourse deixis (9%) and 80 social deixis (6.6%). The most dominant kinds of deixis was Person Deixis with total number 746 items (62.1%) and the deictic word “I� is the most dominant word of person deixis in the album. Person deixis is dominantly used because he mostly wrote his own experiences into the song lyrics.