Deixis in Travel Section Articles of the “USA Today” Online Newspaper: Pragmatics Study

This research title is "Analysis of Deixis in Travel Articles from the Online Newspaper “USA Today".This research aims to analyze the types and functions of deixis found in the articles in the travel section of the online newspaper “USA Today”. The method used in this research is the descriptive qualitative method. The theoretical framework used is Cruse’s theory (2000) to classify the types of deixis and Levinson’s theory (1983) to identify their functions. The research findings identify a total of 70 data of deixis throughout the travel rubrics articles and categorize them into five kinds of deixis, including 32 data of person deixis (45.71%), 6 data of place or spatial (8.57%), 11 data of temporal deixis (15.71%), 16 data of discourse deixis (22.86%) and finally, 5 data of social deixis (7.14%). According to the functions of deixis that are aligned with each type of deixis included, the person deixis functions to delineate the roles of participants, serving as a reference point for the author. Spatial or place deixis operates to articulate the spatial relationships concerning the location of a statement or occurrence. Temporal deixis elucidates the relative timing associated with an event or statement. Discourse deixis establishes referential relationships within the discourse, effectively linking prior or subsequent statements to the current utterance. Social deixis indicates the social hierarchy or status dynamics between the speaker and the interlocutor. Therefore, deixis considerably enhances textual clarity and understanding in the articles published in USA Today’s travel section. This minimizes potential uncertainties in deciphering the contextual nuances inherent within the articles and allows users to receive information efficiently