This means that for semiotic purposes articulation is a higher product of mental evolution than either gesticulation or intonation.
It has told us of a time when as yet mankind were altogether speechless, and able to communicate with one another only by means of gesticulation and grimace.
Indeed, we have some, though not undisputed, evidence to show that in the case of many savages gesticulation is so far a necessary aid to articulation, that the latter without the former is but very imperfectly intelligible.
There's no need," said Pradelle in answer to a meaning gesticulation toward his wrists.
Madelaine made a gesticulation with her hands, as if throwing the idea aside.
Moreover, if the characters speak at random and in a random way, and all in one and the same diction, as is the case in Shakespeare's work, then even the action of gesticulation is wasted.
If gesticulation be also a means of expressing character, as in ballets, this is only a secondary means.
The French have a mode of narrating even trivial matters with gesticulation and detail, whereby they are impressed on your memory.
Strictly speaking, however, what I get from gesticulation alone is an abstract notion of the essential drift of what is being said, and that, too, whether I judge from a moral or an intellectual point of view.
His manner as a speaker was extremely good, with sufficient gesticulation for the emphasis of particular points.
All were talking and laughing, and an immense amount of gesticulation seems to emphasize and supplement speech.
The most interesting fact about gesticulation is that as soon as conversation assumes the same form there is a repetition of the same gesture.
But what gesticulationalone really conveys to me is the essential matter--be it of a moral or intellectual nature--of the whole conversation in abstracto.
And yet these standing forms of gesticulation which are universally observed are certainly the outcome of no convention; they are natural and original, a true language of nature, which may have been strengthened by imitation and custom.
After a salutation, in which gesticulation awkwardly supplied the place of language, the old chief exhibited his palsied limbs, for the purpose of being touched, by the supposed celestial visitants.
Oratory flowed on an ever rising tide, accompanied by much violent gesticulation and expectoration by way of emphasis.
And his recitals were always accompanied by profuse gesticulation and wonderful facial expressions and much rolling of the eyes.
Ella's gesticulation was eloquent of how much that had been.
Or was it something more salient, the same thing that had suggested itself to her with the violent gesticulation of the shopkeeper at the passage--that some question other than the mere transfer of the ring had come up between them?
There was continually with her the fear that it might sharpen into a quarrel; for now the goldsmith had ceased his gesticulation and became suddenly immobile, and still Harry was requiring of him the same thing.
He came on and abused them with gesticulation and language; he swore and stormed at them; he appealed to their sense of chivalry; he threatened to come down among them and teach them manners; he declared that they should hear her.
So habitual is this gesticulation that it is often useless.
He stood up, erect and commanding, upon the platform under the Holy Rood, while he addressed with fiery eloquence and Italian gesticulation the crowd of people gathered round him.
Lelehi Mudra, or the performance of the gesticulation called Lelehi, which consists in putting the palm of the right hand upon the back of the left, and shaking the fingers.
The firelight fell upon his wrinkled face and shriveled figure as he sat telling his story with such inimitable gesticulation that every man in the lodge broke into a laugh.
This done, he seated himself upright on his couch, and began with much gesticulationto tell his story.
Nothing can exceed the fierce gesticulation of these people when animated in conversation, and on this occasion they gave loose to all their natural vivacity, shouting and dancing about in a manner that well-nigh intimidated us.
But in declamation, dialogue and lyric passage, in gesticulation and movement, he had to avoid the least violation of the general harmony of the performance.
A single masked performer was able to enchant admiring crowds by the art of gesticulation and movement only.
Mrs. Jazeph, sinking back on her knees, and beating her hands together despairingly with the helpless gesticulationof a child.
With a mad gesticulation he serves me a thump on the shoulder.
