Discourse+Analysis

**__ TEDDY BEAR SONG __** In the song of “Teddy Bear”, the first move corresponds to the sound of the bell. The teacher is the principal actor. The teacher looks at the children and does a gesture to them to indicate the beginning of the song. It isn’t paralanguage and the non – verbal languages is eye contact, illustrators and affect displayer. The function in the all song is regulatory. The next part, is ‘Teddy bear, Teddy Bear’. The actors in this part are the teacher, children and teddy. Every time it sounds ‘Teddy bear, Teddy bear’, the paralanguage used is a rhythmic binary and rising intonation. The non-verbal language is used in all song, but principally in this part are regulators, affect displayers and eye contact. The part of ‘Touch the ground’ the principal actors are children, teddy and teacher. The move is realized touch. The paralanguage is used falling intonation. The cue is made by the teacher and the students are doing the affect displayer in all song. The non verbal language used is illustrators. The next part is ‘Turn around’. The move is realized turn. The actors as in the previous part are teacher, students and teddy. The paralanguage is used falling intonation. The non-verbal language used is affect displayer. On the penultimate part, the actors are children, student an teddy. The move is walk. The paralanguage is falling intonation and the non verbal language is illustrator, affect displayer, cue and emblems. In this part and the finally part the function is representative, because the teacher shows the steps that the children had realized. The finale part of this song is ‘Stamp your feet’. the actors as in the rest of the song are teddy, teacher and students. The move is stamp. The paralanguage is falling intonation and the non-verbal language is affect displayer, emblems, eye contact and cue.

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