Abstract :
This study aims to analyse deixis and to understand the meaning of the reference words that are
shown from the utterances by several characters in ?Knives Out? (2019) movie script by Rian
Johnson. The theories in pragmatics used to analyse the utterances is deixis, and references. This
research uses qualitative approach. It is conducted by using descriptive qualitative method. The
research object in this study is Knives Out (2019) movie script by Rian Johnson. The research data
are collected from several utterances which are conveyed by several characters in Knives Out (2019)
movie script. This study aims to analyse several utterances in a movie script using several theories
in pragmatics. The results of this research reveals there are five types of deixis in Knives Out movie
script such as person, place, time, social, and discourse deixis using Levinson?s theories. This study
also reveals there are total 89 data of deixis found in Knives Out movie script. Moreover, the most
dominant types of deixis found in ?Knives Out? (2019) is person deixis movie script with 57 data
found in object of the research. Therefore, all these deictic words are also describing the reference
words, which means that the meaning of the words to convey the characters exact meaning is known
by looking at the previous context, phrases, and sentences.