AN ANALYSIS OF SOCIAL DEIXIS OF IMRAN KHAN'S INTERVIEW WITH CNN: A PRAGMATIC STUDY

Abstract

Since social deixis shows specific terms for addressing interlocutors, it is repeatedly used in particular communications and interactions by the participants. The interview with Imran Khan as Prime Minister of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan attracted national and international media houses to broadcast. This study aims to find out the kinds of social deixis, describes the functions of social deixis and the dominant type of social Deixis in Imran khan's interview with CNN. The research is descriptive and qualitative.Theory Deixis, proposed by Levinson (1983), has been used to address the research problem. The researcher found a total of 733 data of social deixis, including Relational Deixis, 626 data with a percentage of 99 %, and absolute social Deixis with 07 data with a percentage of 1%. Researchers concluded that Relational Deixis is the dominant type of social deixis. Moreover, three functions of social deixis ha also been found in Imran Khan's interview with CNN: the social status differentiation function, politeness, and social identity function.