gesture language
Example Sentences
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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)
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
Raffaelle was equally particular in his exhibition of gesture language, even unto the minutest detail of the arrangement of the fingers.
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.
Whether they have any religious ideas it is impossible to say, all intercourse with the surrounding peoples being restricted to barter carried on with gesture language for nobody has ever yet mastered their tongue.
From Man, Past and Present by Haddon, Alfred Court
