Abstract

Sometimes, we face difficulty in understanding what the speaker says, about whom, when, and where. Here, context is important to understand the speaker’s meaning. Deixis is a technical term for one of the most basic things we do with utterances. Deixis is a form of referring that is tied to the speaker’s context. This study involves two parts: a theoretical background and a practical part. The theoretical background consists of a number of sections illustrating the concept of deixis and the Theatre of the Absurd. The practical part involves the analysis of the meaning of deictic expressions found in an absurdist work which is Harold Pinter’s The Birthday Party and a discussion of the data analysis.

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