Deixis Used in “The Prince, The Princess of Wales and The Princess Royal at Windsor Castle” Talk on Podcast

The title of this research is Deixis used in “The Prince, The Princess of Wales, and The Princess Royal at Windsor Castle” Talk on Podcast. The research aims to find out the mostly found types of deixis and to analyze the reason for the deixis change in the flow of conversation on podcasts. The data was taken from The Good, The Bad, and The Rugby podcast’s YouTube channel, which was collected using documentation methods, including reading and note-taking techniques. A descriptive qualitative method was used to analyze the data. This study use Levinson’s (1983) theory about deixis, which was supported by reference theory by Halliday and Hasan (1976) and theory of context by Yule (1996). The analysis showed 213 deixis terms, consisting of 138 person deixis, 15 place deixis, 26 time deixis, 21 discourse deixis, and 13 social deixis in the podcast. Deixis was primarily found in person deixis. The deixis changes the flow of conversation because the people and the time they use to say the statement differ. Therefore, the deixis changed but still refers to the same thing. In conclusion, the study of Deixis is important to understand what the speaker in podcast tried to convey.