The Relative Comprehension of Communicative Gesture Types

Researchers have examined the role of gesture in signal presentation, but few have investigated how gestures differ in their communicative capacity. In this study, we investigated the relative comprehension of metamorphic, deictic, beat, and iconic gestures (McNeill, 1985). A sample of natural commu...

The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences: Annual Review

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