gesture language
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In gesture language, the gesture has to remain fairly imitative or expressive to be intelligible.
From Human Traits and their Social Significance by Edman, Irwin
Many arguments have been advanced to prove that gesture language preceded articulate speech and formed the earliest attempt at communication, resulting from the interacting subjective and objective conditions to which primitive man was exposed.
He delivered his story, referring to one of the many incidents in his perilous life, orally, but with pantomimes so graphic and vivid that it may be presented truly as a specimen of gesture language.
Primitive man depended largely upon gesture language, and the placing of the hand over the heart is universally understood to signify love and fidelity.
From The Brain and the Voice in Speech and Song by Mott, F. W. (Frederick Walker)
Since these arts were originally derived from gesture language, it is not strange that gesture and pantomime are the best means of preparing the child for these modes of communication.
From The Tree-Dwellers by Brown, Howard V.
