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[[File:gesture fist with thumb through fingers.jpg|thumb|upright|right|100px|The "fig sign" is an ancient gesture with many uses.]] |
[[File:gesture fist with thumb through fingers.jpg|thumb|upright|right|100px|The "fig sign" is an ancient gesture with many uses.]] |
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[[File:Ily.jpg|thumb|upright|right|100px|The ILY sign, "I Love You"]] |
[[File:Ily.jpg|thumb|upright|right|100px|The ILY sign, "I Love You"]] |
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[[File:Jean-Leon Gerome Pollice Verso.jpg|thumb|right|''Pollice Verso'' by [[Jean-Léon Gérôme]].]] |
[[File:Jean-Leon Gerome Pollice Verso.jpg|thumb|right|''[[Pollice Verso (Gérôme)|Pollice Verso]]'' by [[Jean-Léon Gérôme]].]] |
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[[File:Tony The Marine -9921.jpg|thumb|right|120px|A man pointing at a photo]] |
[[File:Tony The Marine -9921.jpg|thumb|right|120px|A man pointing at a photo]] |
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* {{anchor|Fig sign}}[[Fig sign]] is a gesture made with the hand and fingers curled and the thumb thrust between the middle and index fingers, or, rarely, the middle and ring fingers, forming the fist so that the thumb partly pokes out. In some areas of the world, the gesture is considered a good luck charm; in others (including Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Russia, Serbia and Turkey among others), it is considered an obscene gesture. The precise origin of the gesture is unknown, but many historians speculate that it refers to a penis penetrating the [[Mons pubis|female genitalia]] (to which [[The Finger]] also refers). In [[ancient Greece]], this gesture was a fertility and good luck charm designed to ward off evil. This usage has survived in Portugal and Brazil, where carved images of hands in this gesture are used in good luck [[Amulet|talismans]].<ref name=FGuide/> |
* {{anchor|Fig sign}}[[Fig sign]] is a gesture made with the hand and fingers curled and the thumb thrust between the middle and index fingers, or, rarely, the middle and ring fingers, forming the fist so that the thumb partly pokes out. In some areas of the world, the gesture is considered a good luck charm; in others (including Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Russia, Serbia and Turkey among others), it is considered an obscene gesture. The precise origin of the gesture is unknown, but many historians speculate that it refers to a penis penetrating the [[Mons pubis|female genitalia]] (to which [[The Finger]] also refers). In [[ancient Greece]], this gesture was a fertility and good luck charm designed to ward off evil. This usage has survived in Portugal and Brazil, where carved images of hands in this gesture are used in good luck [[Amulet|talismans]].<ref name=FGuide/> |
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Gestures are a form of nonverbal communication in which visible bodily actions are used to communicate important messages, either in place of speech or together and in parallel with spoken words.[1] Gestures include movement of the hands, face, or other parts of the body. Physical non-verbal communication such as purely expressive displays, proxemics, or displays of joint attention differ from gestures, which communicate specific messages.[1] Gestures are culture-specific and may convey very different meanings in different social or cultural settings.[2] Hand gestures used in the context of public speakingormusical conducting are chironomy,[3] while those used in an elaborate system of specific communication are known as sign language. Although some gestures, such as the ubiquitous act of pointing, differ little from one place to another, most gestures do not have invariable or universal meanings, but connote specific meanings in particular cultures. A single emblematic gesture may have very different significance in different cultural contexts, ranging from complimentary to highly offensive.[4]
This list includes links to pages that discuss particular gestures, as well as short descriptions of some gestures that do not have their own page. Not included are the specialized gestures, calls, and signals used by referees and umpires in various organized sports. Policemen also make gestures when directing traffic. Miming is an art form in which the performer uses gestures to convey a story; charades is a game of gestures. Mimed gestures might generally be used to refer to an action in context, for example turning a pretend crank to ask someone to lower a car side window (or for modern power windows, pointing down or miming pressing a button).
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