CENTRAL ASIAN JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HISTORY VOLUME: 02 ISSUE: 03 | MARCH 2021 (ISSN: 2660-6836) Available online at www.cajssh.centralasianstudies.org CENTRAL ASIAN JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HISTORY Journal homepage: www. http://cajssh.centralasianstudies.org/index.php/CAJSSH DEIXIS IN THE SONG LYRICS OF HAILEE STEINFELD’S “HALF WRITTEN STORY” ALBUM Vera Dewi Sri Simanjuntak1, Eliza Rorezs Napitupulu2, Herman3, Christian Neni Purba4, Nguyen Van Thao5* 1,2,3,4English Education Department, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Universitas HKBP Nommensen, Medan, Indonesia 5Faculty of Philology, Hanoi Pedagogical University 2, Vinh Phuc, Vietnam 1 2
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[email protected] A B S T R A C T A R T I C L E I N F O The research aims to analyze the three types of deixis analysis using Yule's Article history: theory and interpret the reference meaning in the Hailee Steinfeld’s "Half Received 25 Feb 2021 Written Story" album song lyrics. Problems raised in this research are: 1) What Received in revised form 28 Feb 2021 Accepted 15 March 2021 are the types of deixis used in the five song’s lyrics of Hailee Steinfeld’s “Half Available online 30 March 2021 Written Story” Album? 2) What is the most dominant type of Deixis used in the five song’s lyrics Hailee Steinfeld’s “Half Written Story” Album?, and 3) Keywords: analysis, deixis, lyrics, What are the refence meanings of those song lyrics used in Hailee pragmatics, song Steinfeld’s“Half Written Story” Album? This study was conducted by using a descriptive qualitative method.