gesture language
Example Sentences
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Take any part in any play, strip from it in its enactment the whole of its gesture language, could we realise that the actor appearing in it was portraying nature for us?
From A History of Pantomime by Broadbent, R. J.
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.
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
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.
This is no imputation against the missionaries, as in October, 1880, five intelligent Ojibwas from Petoskey, Mich., told the writer that they had never heard of gesture language.
