What Is The Importance Of Pragmatic Analysis

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This chapter explains background of the study, problem statements, reason for choosing the topic, objective of research, significance of research and the limitation of research. All these section will be discussed as follows : 1.1. Background of the Study Communication is simply the act of transferring information from one place to another. Although this is a simple definition, when we think about how we may communicate the subject becomes a lot more complex. There are various categories of communication and more than one may occur at any time. The different categories of communication are Spoken or Verbal Communication such as face-to-face, telephone, radio or television and other media. Non-Verbal Communication such asbody language, gestures, …show more content…

Song lyric sometimes uses person deixis. Therefore I use deixis analysis to analyze sentence in song lyric. As Yule (1996:3) underlined that pragmatic is study of speaker meaning. It means that pragmatic is concerned with the study of meaning as communicated by the speaker and interpreted by listener. Pragmatic is a study focused on deictic, reference, entailment, and speech act. The use of language in communication gives more easiness to the language user such as referring system. Sometimes there is misunderstanding of meaning and intention between language users. That misunderstanding related to understanding of utterance meaning with reference. In order to understand a reference of utterance, reader or listener should be able to identify the contexts of utterance. Deixis is a study to describe the relation between language and contexts in language structure itself. The meaning will be clear if the listener or reader know about who, where, and when the utterance is uttered. So the center positioning of deixis is speaker. Therefore I want to analyze the person deixis on song lyric in Maher Zain’s album. I am interested to analyze Maher Zain’s song lyric of Album “ Forgive Me” because, because, Maher Zain is the new star of modern islamic music with meaningful songs that aim to inspire and entertain people and send a message of peace and hope to the world. He is also strong muslim religious influences

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