Deixis in to the Lighthouse: A Syntactical Context Analysis

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.