Introduction: This research examines deixis in Virginia Woolf’s to the Lighthouse, focusing on how meaning depends on speaker, listener, time, and location. Aim: This research aims to reveal how deixis functions in to the Lighthouse and to analyze its role in the forms of sentences. Materials and Methods: The study uses a qualitative descriptive method to identify person, spatial, temporal, social, and discourse deixis, analyzing their contextual roles in the narrative. Results: Woolf employs deixis as a stylistic device. Person deixis drives shifts in focalization, while spatial and temporal deixis enable fluid movement between memory and present experience. Conclusion: Deixis in to the Lighthouse deepens readers’ engagement with characters’ consciousness and supports Woolf’s themes of perception, time, and reality, linking linguistic and literary insights.
Panggabean et al. (Mon,) studied this question.