An Analysis of Gestures Found in "A Quiet Place" Film

Authors

  • Rahma Amalia Putri Universitas PGRI Semarang
  • Siti Lestari Universitas PGRI Semarang
  • AB Prabowo KA Universitas PGRI Semarang

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.35473/po.v3i1.526

Keywords:

Analysis, Gestures, A Quiet Place film

Abstract

This fnal project presents the analysis of gestures found in “A Quiet Place†flm. The
main purposes of this research are (1) to fnd out the kinds of gestures found in “A
Quiet Place†flm (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 flm, the researcher
should fnd out the kinds of gesture in another journal or books then analyzing the
kinds of gesture that found in “A Quiet Place†flm. 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 flm. 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 Placeâ€
flm that relating to this research. “A Quiet Place†is an American post-apocalyptic horror
flm directed by John Krasinski in 2018, who wrote the screenplay with Bryan Woods and
Scott Beck. The flm stars Krasinski, alongside Emily Blunt, Millicent Simmonds, and
Noah Jupe. The plot revolves around a family struggling to survive in a post-apocalyptic
world inhabited by blind extraterrestrial creatures with an acute sense of hearing. A Quiet
Place premiered at South by Southwest on March 9, 2018, and was released in the United
States on April 6, 2018, by Paramount Pictures. This is one of the flm which is not having
any conversations. The characters are used gestures for communication. The researcher
suggested the readers to be more understanding about gesture, and also the researcher
suggested the future researcher that another drama or flm could be selected to next
researcher and they could explain more about this subject because the gestures is not
only about non-verbal communication, it is related to another theory of body language.

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Published

2020-06-05

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 1 (2020): June 2020

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