A PRAGMATIC ANALYSIS OF DISCOURSE DEIXIS IN MALALA YOUSAFAI’S SPEECH AT UNITED NATIONS YOUTH ASSEMBLY
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https://doi.org/10.22159/ijss.2026v14i2.43526Keywords:
Pragmatic, Discourse deixis, Anaphora,, Cataphora,, Speech, Malala YousafzaiAbstract
This study aims to find out and describe the discourse deixis in Malala Yousafzai’s speech at United Nations Youth Assembly, the function, and the relations with anaphora and cataphora. This research is a kind of descriptive qualitative research because the data present by the descriptive. The researcher uses the theory from Stephen C. Levinson, meanwhile to analyze the data the researcher uses the theory by Miles and Huberman. The result of the research shows that in Malala Yousafzai’s speech there are 39 utterances that contains of discourse deixis, 20 utterances or 51.28% for token reflexive, and 19 utterances or includes of switch reference in the same subject marker 33.33% and different subject marker 15.38%. They include of this, that, those, these, them, they, it, their, them, I, we, he. In addition, the utterance is also includes of anaphora and cataphora.
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