A Content Analysis of Deixis and References in Jakarta Post

The purpose of the research is to examine the deixis and references of various types in the Jakarta Post. The thematic analysis was used to analyze four Jakarta Post article. In this study, the qualitative method was applied. The findings indicated that numerous types of deixis were detected in the Jakarta Post, including person, spatial, time, discourse, and social. Social deixis was a predominant type. Another outcome was a reference. The anaphoric and cataphoric references were discovered in the Jakarta Post, while the anaphoric reference is being predominant. In short, the majority of Jakarta Post authors used social deixis and anaphoric reference to provide comprehensible information in the written text.