Deixis Analysis of ‘Turning Turtle’ lyrics in the Mary Poppins Returns Movie Soundtrack

Abstract

The study of deixis has intensively been conducted over the decades. However, the study of deixis focusing on the types, references, and the most dominant use of deixis found in the soundtrack of a fantasy film is in need of more exploration. Drawing on the theory of Levinson, this research aims to analyse the types of deixis found in the lyrics of the song ‘Turning Turtle’ chosen from the Mary Poppins Returns soundtracks. The researchers selected the movie soundtrack because that
movie is a musical movie that consists of songs that contain deictic words and it consists of such deictic words that have reference meanings. Moreover, this study was conducted using a descriptive qualitative method. The findings show that there are five types of deixis used in the songs namely person deixis, temporal deixis, spatial deixis, social deixis, and discourse deixis with different references while the most dominant types of deixis used are person deixis, discourse deixis, and temporal deixis.