Keyword: References, The Theory of Everything movie.
This study was intended to investigate references based on the formulation of the
research problem as follows: What is the reference type dominant in the Theory of Everything
script? the research was conducted by using a qualitative while the data were taken from the
printed media. The research finding showed that it is found the six types of references, they
are Comparative, Personal Anaphora, Demonstrative Anaphora, Personal Cataphora,
Demonstrative Cataphora, Exophora and present the percentage of them Comparative (14,4
%)Personal Anaphora (23,4 %)Demonstrative Anaphora(9,5 %)Personal Cataphora (9,9
%)Demonstrative Cataphora(22,5 %)Exophora(20,3 %). The result is personal anaphora is in
greater occurrences than another with the percentage 23,4 %, and the lowest percentage is
demonstrative anaphora with the percentage 9,5 %. Learn the reference is important to
improve student writing skill, it helps the writer and the reader understanding the production
and interpretation utterance. So the researcher suggests the next researcher to discuss the
kinds of references such as reference anaphora and cataphora in deixis. Those are important.
To helps understanding the meaning of an utterance of something.