Deixis as a reference to a word which has a changing meaning depending on the context and
situation in which a conversation takes place, therefore an understanding of deixis is needed so
that there are no misunderstandings about the meaning of a communication. The purpose of this
study is to describe the types of deixis in Barack Obama's speech on Iraq war. This type of
research is descriptive qualitative, the researcher explains and describes a little about what deixis
and deixis findings were most dominant in Barack Obama's speech on Iraq war. The data
collected by researchers is a transcript of Barrack Obama's speech on Iraq war. The results of this
study found that there are 5 types of deixis which include personal deixis, spatial deixis, social
deixis, temporal deixis and discourse deixis. In some paragraph quotations, such as examples of
personal deixis that refer to people or replace someone (he, she, we, they and you), then the use
of place deixis (this, there and here), the use of temporal deixis (today, yesterday and now ).
Based on the results of the research above, it can be concluded that there are 5 types of deixis
found in Barak Obama's speech on Iraq war and personal deixis is the most dominant deixis used
in Barak Obama's speech.