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 Irwin Edman
Ercole only answered by raising his head and throwing out his chin, which means "no" in gesture language.
From Whosoever Shall Offend by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford
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.
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 Howard V. Brown
Raffaelle was equally particular in his exhibition of gesture language, even unto the minutest detail of the arrangement of the fingers.
