gesture
Let an agent explain gestures and their kinds, describe cultural variation and etiquette with attribution, support intercultural communication, and describe research on gesture and language.
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Purpose and description
Let an agent explain gestures and their kinds, describe cultural variation and etiquette with attribution, support intercultural communication, and describe research on gesture and language.
A movement of the hands, arms, head or body used to communicate, accompany speech or perform a ritual, including emblems with fixed meanings such as waving, beckoning and winking, co-speech gestures, obscene or insulting gestures, applause such as palmas and expressive gestures such as the facepalm; gestures vary across cultures and are studied in linguistics, psychology and anthropology.
What it is for: Communicative body movements.
It can be explain kinds of gesture; describe cultural variation; support intercultural communication; describe research on gesture.
Distinguishing features
Non-verbal communication
Culturally variable
Conventional or spontaneous
Studied scientifically
What it looks like
Movements of hands, arms, head and body.
How it is recognised
Communicative movement
Emblems, co-speech gestures, expressive gestures
Sign languages are full languages, not just gestures
Related models
is a kind of - category
is related to - communicative acts
is related to - hand gestures
is related to - physical comedy
In practice
Families and kinds
emblems with fixed meanings such as beckoning and winking
co-speech and iconic gestures
obscene and insulting gestures
ritual and ceremonial gestures
expressive gestures such as the facepalm and applause
Standards and regulation
Laws on offensive gestures in some jurisdictions
Broadcasting standards
No regulation of gesture generally
Failure modes and hazards
Offence from cross-cultural misreading
Confusing gesture with sign language
Legal consequences of obscene gestures in some places
Also called
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Where this came from
wikidata · CC0 1.0
Also registered as vr.tr.gesture
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.
Understand What gestures are.
Concepts.
Kinds
Kinds of gesture.
Kinds
Kinds.
- What kinds of gestures exist, from emblems and co-speech gestures to ritual and expressive gestures? definition
- How do gestures differ from sign language? definition
Meaning
What a gesture means.
Meaning
Meaning.
- What does this gesture mean in this culture, and could it be misread elsewhere? provenance
- Which entry fits a specific gesture? action
Culture Gestures across cultures.
Attribution.
Variation
Cultural variation.
Variation
Variation.
- How do gestures such as beckoning, nodding and counting vary across cultures, according to anthropologists and communities? provenance
- Which gestures are offensive where? provenance
Etiquette
Intercultural etiquette.
Etiquette
Etiquette.
- How can travellers and professionals avoid gesture misunderstandings? action
- Which legal consequences can offensive gestures have here? provenance
Science Research on gesture.
Study.
Language
Gesture and language.
Language
Gesture and language.
- What does research say about the relationship between gesture, speech and thought, including in child development? provenance
- How is gesture studied and annotated? provenance
Technology
Gesture technology.
Technology
Technology.
- How are gestures recognised by computers and used in interfaces? provenance
- Which entry fits gesture recognition? action
Learn Teaching and history.
Education.
Teach
Teaching about gesture.
Teach
Teaching.
- How can gesture and non-verbal communication be taught? action
- Which misconceptions arise? provenance
History
History.
History
History.
- How have gestures been used in rhetoric, ritual and art historically? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
What the second pass must settle
- Should emblems be catalogued per culture?
- How should gesture research be linked?
- How should etiquette guides be linked?