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2. List of gestures - Wikipedia

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   Simultaneous finger guns with both hands can also be used to underscore the punchline of a joke, something of a visual equivalent to a "rimshot" sound effect. Finger heart is a hand gesture in which the subject has a palm up fist, raises their index finger and brings their thumb over it so as to form a small heart shape. It signals a similar ...

3. Cued speech - Wikipedia

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   Cued speech is a visual system of communication used with and among deaf or hard-of-hearing people. It is a phonemic-based system which makes traditionally spoken languages accessible by using a small number of handshapes, known as cues (representing consonants), in different locations near the mouth (representing vowels) to convey spoken language in a visual format.

4. Articulatory gestures - Wikipedia

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   But this practice confuses signals with symbols. Sound and light are analogue signals, whereas mouth and hand gestures are discrete symbolic entities. A sound or light signal is subject to random noise, whereas the image of the gesture is subject to regular distortion, as when a signer's hand is viewed from different angles. In speech, the ...

5. Manual communication - Wikipedia

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   Diving signals — hand communication methods while scuba diving; Flag semaphores — telegraphy systems using hand-held flags, other objects, or the hands themselves; Finger counting. Chinese number gestures; Open outcry hand signaling; Fingerspelling or manual alphabets; Gang signals — signs used to signify allegiance to a gang or local ...

6. Silent fox gesture - Wikipedia

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   The silent fox hand signal A man (right) using the silent fox gesture at a rehearsal in the Staatsschauspiel Dresden. The silent fox, also known as the quiet fox, whispering fox, listening fox, or the quiet coyote, is a hand gesture used in parts of Europe and North America, and is mostly done in schools by teachers to calm down a loud classroom.

7. Sign of the horns - Wikipedia

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   Hook 'em Horns is the slogan and hand signal of the University of Texas at Austin (UT). Students and alumni of the university employ a greeting consisting of the phrase "Hook 'em" or "Hook 'em Horns" and also use the phrase as a parting good-bye or as the closing line in a letter or story.