THE STUDY OF DEIXIS USED IN SHIRLEY JACKSON’S SHORT STORY “THE LOTTERY”

This research analyze about Deixis in Short Story The Lottery by Shirley Jackson. The goals of this research are to find out three kinds of deixis used in The Lottery and the important of context to interpret the intended message of The Lottery. Deixis can be interpreting if we know the context, because deixis tied with context. So, to answer the second question of this research context is needed. In this research the researcher used qualitative method. The researcher used qualitative method because the data are in the form of sentences or utterance. It found in short story The Lottery by Shirley Jackson which contain three kinds of deixis: person, spatial and temporal deixis. Then, the researcher explains the data by descriptive explanation. The techniques of the collecting data in this research are reading, underlying and segmenting. After collecting the data the researcher analyzes the data that include three kinds of deixis. From the analysis the researcher found 139 deitic words. Those are 37 words of first person deixis (10 inclusive of we), 26 words of second person deixis, 52 words of third person deixis, 12 words of spatial deixis (5 proximal and 7 distal of place) and 12 words of temporal deixis (7 proximal and 5 distal of time ).