Social Deixis in Harrison’s The Silent Wife

Abstract

This study aims at identifying the use of social deixis in Harrison’s The Silent Wife to find out the frequency and the percentage of different linguistic expressions that function as social deixis and to present the most prominent linguistic expression used as social deixis in the novel. The direct utterances of characters were chosen to be the source of data and Yan Huang’s theory was adapted for data analysis in a pragmatic prospective. The research method is a quantitative method.

 The results show that using first names as a form of address has the greatest occurrence in this novel, because most characters have the same social status.