Gesture of Ustadz Maulana During His Religious Speech on "Islam Itu Indah" at Trans TV Channel

This study aims to determine iconic tracing gestures produced while speaking which constitute part of the speaker’s communicative intention. Besides,the significance of this research is (1) add and share new knowladge about gesture description. Especially, Ustadz Maulana's gesture on "Islam Itu Indah" at Trans TV channel and make all of people who interest with his religion speech. (2) Making people in society understand about important gesture in communication and they can be practiced correctly in certain situation. The researcher uses a descriptive qualitative in this research. Descriptive qualitative is one of methods to analysis research set encompassing approaches such as empirical phenomenology, grounded theory, ethnography, protocol analysis and discourse analysis (Khotari, 2004:31). The researcher used a special strategy for enhancing the credibility of design and analysis. On the other hand, the researcher also uses Ustadz Maulana’s video from youtube as data source to analysis gesture of Ustadz Maulana when he speaks on “Islam Itu Indah” at Trans TV channel. Meanwhile, the result of this research is about correlation between semantic and gesture to communication in daily activities. Then, the speech production with concurrent gestures is more explicit than speech without gestures.