THE REFERENTIAL MEANING OF DEIXIS REVEALMENT IN ARABIC-ENGLISH AR RAHMAN

##plugins.themes.academic_pro.article.sidebar##

Published Oct 31, 2021
https://doi.org/10.51715/husocpument.v1i4.83
Download
PDF
Statistic
views: 187 times
Vol. 1 No. 4 (2021): Oktober: Journal of Humanities, Social Science, Public Administration and Management

##plugins.themes.academic_pro.article.main##

Nindy Dwi Febriana
a:1:{s:5:"en_US";s:34:"Universitas Mahasaraswati Denpasar";}
I Wayan Resen
Mahasaraswati Denpasar University
Putu Devi Maharani
Mahasaraswati Denpasar University

Abstract

According to an article in Detik News, Quran Surah Ar Rahman is the one of the names of Quran surah is written in the language of Arabic, Ar Rahman also is belong to the 55th of 114th sub-chapter of the Quran. Ar Rahman goes by 78 verses/sentences of God message that fundamental for human and living creatures in the life and afterlife. This study is corcerned with deixis revealment in the first step, and then the reference meaning will come after it. It is used a descriptive qualitative  method to identify the data. The types of deixis of English Translation of Ar Rahman are found to apply by using a theory about kind of deixis proposed by Levinson (1983:62) and Yule (1996:12). Apart from that, in completing this study, next the reference meaning were interpreted under a theory of reference meaning from the same linguist proposed by Yule (1996). This study is under the reason to determine kinds of deixis found in each English verses/sentences of Ar Rahman, and to avoid the ambiguous meaning are represented by the reference of Ar Rahman’s interpretation connected to the context of the utterance. The references meaning in this study, which was proven by some representatives data included: Person  Deixis, Place Deixis, Social Deixis, Discourse Deixis, and Time Deixis. This study found person deixis dominated in highest percentage and followed by the next the numeral sequence are place deixis, social deixis, time deixis, and discource deixis in smallest percentage. The writer found 62 data occurrences of deixis and they have followed by the reference meaning. The types of deixis found in the Ar Rahman are consisting of 33 data of person deixis (53,2%), 13 data of place/spatial deixis (21%), 10 data of social deixis (16.1%), 1 data of discourse deixis (1,6%), and 5 data of time/temporal deixis (8,1%).

##plugins.themes.academic_pro.article.details##

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

References

  1. F. Nindy Dwi, “An Analysis of Referential Meaning of Deixis in Arabic-English of the Quran Surah Ar Rahman” Thesis, English Study Program, Faculty of Foreign Languages, Maharaswati Denpasar University, Indonesia, 2021.
  2. Levinson, Stephen C. Pragmatics.London: Cambridge University Press, 1983.
  3. Levinson, S. C. (1983). Pragmatics.
  4. Yule, George. Oxford to Language Study. Oxford University Press, 1996.
  5. Amri, S., & Bemak, F. (2013). Mental health help-seeking behaviors of Muslim immigrants in the United States: Overcoming social stigma and cultural mistrust. Journal of Muslim Mental Health, 7(1).
  6. Mustinda, L. (2019, 9 5). Surah Ar Rahman yang punya 5 keutamaan bagi umat muslim, Detik News:https://news.detik.com/nerits/d-4694936/surat-ar-rahman-yang-punya-5-keutamaan-bagi-umat-muslim, retrieved Oct 2, 2020.
  7. CSLI, S. U. (2006, 11 28). Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, SEP: https://plato,stanford.edu/entries/pragmatics/, retrived Oct 10, 2020.
  8. Mahardika, A Deixis Analysis in the lyrics of Endah and Rhesa Songs, Faculty of Foreign Languages, Maharaswati Denpasar University, Indonesia, 2017.
  9. Samosir, An Analysis of Deixis found Article of the Jakarta Post, Medan: English Department State, University of Medan, 2013
  10. Widiantara, Category Shift in the Translation of Complex Noun Phrases From English into Indonesian in Inferno Novel, Denpasar: College of Foreign Laguages Literature Stiba Saraswati Denpasar, 2019.