Person Deixis in English Translation of Summarized Sahih Muslim Hadith in the Book of As-Salat

Abstract

The objective of the research was to find out the deixis in accordance with the theory of Yule and to find out the referents of deixis. Most of the words in the language have meanings and references. The particular research finds out accentuates the deictic expression and the referents of the expression. In this research, the researcher adopted a descriptive qualitative method to describe the deixis which was found in the English translation of Hadith (Sahih Muslim). The Sketch Engine software was used as a data collection tool in this research. The theory of Yule was used to analyze the data taken from the book of As-Salat. The researcher found in this research that third person deixis is the dominant person deixis in the English translation of summarized Shahih Muslim Hadith, especially in the book of As-Salat (the prayer). This study recommends that one should get help from this study as it has broad knowledge for the reader about understanding and analyzing deixis, especially deixis which are used in the form of writing. This research suggests to the other researchers that if they are interested in the study of pragmatics, they need to research deixis by choosing any religious book.