AN ANALYSIS OF SOCIAL DEIXIS IN THE MADNESS OF KING GEORGE MOVIE

This research was aimed at finding out the kinds of social deixis and to explain the
social stratification factors in each kind of social deixis in The Madness of King
George movie. The type of this research is descriptive qualitative research.
Instrument of research that used in this research is the documentation (library
research). The matrix table used to collect the data about social deixis in the
Madness of King George Movie. According to the matrix table, the researcher
found 1469 social deixis used in this movie. All of social deixis in this movie
were categorized into two major categorizations based on Stephen C. Levinson
(1983) and blending theories of social variation by Janet Holmes (1992) with
social stratification by David Crystal (2010), named relational social deixis and
absolute social deixis. There were 965 kinds of Relational Social Deixis and 504
kinds of Absolute social deixis used in this movie. Second, the dominant type of
Relational Social Deixis was first personal pronoun which refers to the speaker
itself (I, my, myself, mine). It used for 279 times from total of social deixis used
in this movie. In Absolute Social Deixis category, the dominant type was “Sir”
which was used 144 times. It was also explained that Relational Social Deixis
category ass dominant with the frequency of usage around 965 times more than
Absolute Social Deixis with the frequency of usage around 504 times from total
of social deixis used in this movie. Third, there were three factors of social
stratification used in all utterances contained social deixis in this movie. Last, the
researcher found that the dominant social deixis, whether Relational or Absolute
Social Deixis, it refers to the male characters (The King, The Prince and so on)
than the female characters (Queen, Elizabeth etc). Because in the 19th century, the
man held more power to lead the society and dominant in public relations,
especially in Kingdom territory.
Keywords: Social Deixis, Social Stratification, Movie