This son of Romford, Essex, also collaborated on The Boy Looked at Johnny in 1979 with fellow NME reporter Julie Burchill, the pair going on to marry.

Those days were later touched on – in fictional form – with 2005’s Stories We Could Tell. Pretty soon he was championing the emerging punk and new wave scene, chronicling such notables as The Clash, Sex Pistols, Blondie, Buzzcocks, Iggy Pop, The Jam, New York Dolls, Ramones, The Stranglers, Talking Heads, David Bowie, Bruce Springsteen and Led Zeppelin. Hopefully, the result of this research can be useful for readers and students.Tony Parsons: “As a writer, I am happy that people can still get that excited about the written word.”Ĭan it really be 36 years since Tony Parsons first burst on to the UK music scene as a writer with the NME, answering an advert calling for ‘hip, young gunslingers’? By that stage he already had his first novel under his belt ( The Kids, 1976), and was publishing underground paper the Scandal Sheet while moving from job to job in London. Meanwhile, the dominant type of deixis was person deixis. The reference meanings of person deixis mostly refer to the characters, the spatial deixis refer to the places in the story, the temporal deixis refers to the time during the conversation happened, the social deixis refers to an honorable character, and the discourse deixis refers to the expressions in the same utterances uttered by the speaker. Person deixis was uttered 411 times, spatial deixis was uttered 24 times, temporal deixis was uttered 9 times, social deixis was uttered 3 times, and discourse deixis was uttered 15 times. After doing the analysis, it was found that the novel contained five types of deixis such as person deixis, spatial deixis, temporal deixis, social deixis, and discourse deixis. The data obtained in this novel was in form of phrases and sentences uttered by the characters. This research is in qualitative form and used a descriptive method. The source of the data was a corpus from the dialogues in chapter 29, chapter 30, and chapter 31.

It was carried out to identify the type of deixis contained in the novel and to describe to whom and what they refer to in the dialogues. This research is entitled “An Analysis of Deixis in Catching the Sun Novel by Tony Parsons”.

Catching the Sun by Tony Parsons