Abstract:
This research examined the use of gesture on Mind Your Language movie
season 1-5 perspective George Yule perspective. Mind Your Language
movie is about condition of school or class that students from different
country such as Italy, Germany, Greece, Spain, France, China, Japan, India
and Pakistan. The objectives are to know the gesture used and how the
gesture used on Mind Your Language movie based on George Yule
perspective. The researcher used documentation to collect the data. During
the process of research process, researchers here should see and hear
repeatedly from “The Mind Your Language Movie”, then researchers
showing the picture which one is showing the gesture, make every effort to
collect and copy data which is related to the research. After that, the
researchers finally processed it by using content analysis in a gesture based
on George Yule perspective that are three Iconic, Deictic, and Beats. The
result of this study is the researcher finds thirty eight gestures based on
George Yule perspective that are iconic are twenty, deictic seven, and
beats eleven. Each of the three gestures has different language functions ad
meaning. Gestures on this movie used by teacher and students both in the
classroom or outside the classroom.
