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  2. List of gestures - Wikipedia

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    Hand-rubbing, rubbing both hands palms together along the fingers' direction may mean that one is expecting or anticipating something or that one feels cold. U.S. servicemen surrendering with raised hands during the Battle of Corregidor. Hands up is a gesture expressing military surrender by lifting both hands. This may have originated with the ...

  3. Profanity in American Sign Language - Wikipedia

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    The non-dominant hand mimics the "business end" with flapping fingers. This sign is not considered part of ASL. It is, however, part of New Zealand Sign Language. [1] The correct sign in ASL is performed with both the pointer and pinkie finger being extended and thrusting the hand forward to signify "bullshit".

  4. American Sign Language phonology - Wikipedia

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    The Symmetry Condition requires both hands in a symmetric two-handed sign to have the same or a mirrored configuration, orientation, and movement. The Dominance Condition requires that only one hand in a two-handed sign moves if the hands do not have the same handshape specifications, and that the non-dominant hand has an unmarked handshape. [9]

  5. Articulatory gestures - Wikipedia

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    In semiotics, meaningless components of spoken gestures (written as individual letters), or meaningless components of sign language gestures (such as location of hand contact) are known as figurae, the constituents of signs. It also differs from the tradition of considering speech sounds to be the signifiers of speech signs.

  6. Classifier constructions in sign languages - Wikipedia

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    This is in contrast to two-handed lexical signs, in which the two hands do not contribute to the meaning of the sign on their own. [10] The handshapes in a two-handed classifier construction are signed in a specific order if they represent an entity's location. The first sign usually represents the unmoving ground (for example a surface).

  7. Hand rubbing - Wikipedia

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    Hand rubbing is a gesture that conveys in many cultures either that one has a feeling of excited expectation, or that one is simply cold. [1] In Ekman and Friesen's 1969 classification system for gestures, hand-rubbing as an indication of coldness is an emblem intentional gesture that could equally well be verbalized.

  8. ILY sign - Wikipedia

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    The sign is an informal expression of any of several positive feelings, ranging from general esteem to love, for the recipient of the sign.A similar-looking but unrelated variation in which the thumb is toward the palm appears in heavy metal music culture as a "horns" hand-sign (though the thumbs extended version is sometimes used) and in college football as a sign of support for various teams ...

  9. Giving dap - Wikipedia

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    Giving dap, dapping, or dapping up typically involves handshaking (often by hooking fingers), pound hugging, fist pounding, or chest or fist bumping. [ 1 ] Giving dap can refer to presenting many kinds of positive nonverbal communication between two people, ranging from a brief moment of simple bodily contact to a complicated routine of hand ...