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Language is an important tool for communication. When humans say something using certain language, they can get closer to one another. The language that they use in communication can be used to point at certain references in related contexts. The way people use language shows their perspective. Deictic expression is the study that analyzes about references of the words that are used in a certain context. Based on the explanation above, this paper has two problems. They are what are the deictic expressions found in the UK and New Zealand Prime minister speeches UN General Debate in 2022? and, what are the differences and similarities found in the deictic expressions from both speeches? Descriptive qualitative methods are applied to analyze and describe the finding. The deictic expressions that are used in the speeches by the UK and New Zealand Prime ministers will show the way they solve their problems in the debate. This paper finally finds out that the UK and New Zealand Prime ministers use personal deixis such as “we” to represent the speaker and the member of UN countries and the differences are in using a social deictic expression which cannot be found in New Zealand PM utterances.

speeches; deixis; deictic expressions; perspectives