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gesture

vr.tr.gesture · ACT.ACT

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

nonverbal communication

is related to - communicative acts

speech act

is related to - hand gestures

hand

is related to - physical comedy

comedian

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

invitation gesturebeckoning signobscene gesturepalmasfacepalmwinkhand-kissingtongue out with hands beside headblowing a raspberryblowing a raspberry with tongue out and hands beside headpointingclenchingderisive gesturebowingkinemefist shakepraying handsquenelleThree-finger salutehand gesturehand hearteyelid pullGestures for the 2019–2020 Hong Kong protestsmanumissioncut-eyefist pumpstaringraising handspranāmaapplauseDisney pointderisive hand gesturebowing in the Eastern Orthodox Churchbowing in JapanDistress hand signalfolded handscupped handsbuoypresenting gesturehand clasping

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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.

  1. What kinds of gestures exist, from emblems and co-speech gestures to ritual and expressive gestures? definition
  2. How do gestures differ from sign language? definition

Meaning

What a gesture means.

Meaning

Meaning.

  1. What does this gesture mean in this culture, and could it be misread elsewhere? provenance
  2. Which entry fits a specific gesture? action
Culture Gestures across cultures.

Attribution.

Variation

Cultural variation.

Variation

Variation.

  1. How do gestures such as beckoning, nodding and counting vary across cultures, according to anthropologists and communities? provenance
  2. Which gestures are offensive where? provenance

Etiquette

Intercultural etiquette.

Etiquette

Etiquette.

  1. How can travellers and professionals avoid gesture misunderstandings? action
  2. Which legal consequences can offensive gestures have here? provenance
Science Research on gesture.

Study.

Language

Gesture and language.

Language

Gesture and language.

  1. What does research say about the relationship between gesture, speech and thought, including in child development? provenance
  2. How is gesture studied and annotated? provenance

Technology

Gesture technology.

Technology

Technology.

  1. How are gestures recognised by computers and used in interfaces? provenance
  2. Which entry fits gesture recognition? action
Learn Teaching and history.

Education.

Teach

Teaching about gesture.

Teach

Teaching.

  1. How can gesture and non-verbal communication be taught? action
  2. Which misconceptions arise? provenance

History

History.

History

History.

  1. How have gestures been used in rhetoric, ritual and art historically? provenance
  2. 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?