Philosophica Vol III No. 1, Juni 2020 AN ANALYSIS OF GESTURES FOUND IN “A QUIET PLACE” FILM RAHMA AMALIA PUTRI, SITI LESTARI, AB PRABOWO KA English Department, Universitas PGRI Semarang
[email protected] First received: 23 February 2020 Final proof received: 30 May 2020 Abstract This final project presents the analysis of gestures found in “A Quiet Place” film. The main purposes of this research are (1) to find out the kinds of gestures found in “A Quiet Place” film (2) to analyze the function of gesture found in “A Quiet Place” Film. The method of this research is descriptive qualitative research. For collecting the data, the researcher should watch “A Quiet Place” Film. After watching film, the researcher should find out the kinds of gesture in another journal or books then analyzing the kinds of gesture that found in “A Quiet Place” film. The researcher found the kinds of gesture that written by David McNeill and Levy 2005. There are four dimensions of the previous researcher about the kinds of gesture: Iconic, Metaphoric, Deictic, and Beats. That are the kinds of gesture that the researcher will analyze based on the film. The four kinds of gesture is importance for balancing the speakers meaning when they talk, and when the speakers did not allow to speech or using their sounds. Study about gesture is important, as a student of English education the researcher took this subject because it related to cultural understanding and linguistics. The researcher chose “A Quiet Place” film that relating to this research. “A Quiet Place” is an American post-apocalyptic horror film directed by John Krasinski in 2018, who wrote the screenplay with Bryan Woods and Scott Beck.