American Gestures E-Book

Alex Raffi

• Herausgeber: Advanced Reasoning Forum
• Kategorie: Fremdsprachen
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 18

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2021

Beschreibung

American Gestures illustrates more than 125 common gestures in close-up and in context, along with an explanation of how and when to use each gesture. Sections on obscene gestures and impolite actions show what to avoid. Speak American with both hands. It's fun!

Leseprobe

American

Gestures

Alex Raffi

and

Richard L. Epstein

Advanced Reasoning Forum

COPYRIGHT © 2021 by Alex Raffi and Richard L. Epstein

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Names, characters, and incidents relating to any of the characters in this

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or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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TABLE of CONTENTS

Common Gestures...............1

Yes, No, and Pointing............107

Impolite Actions..............111

Obscene Gestures..............119

Index...................123

Introduction

These are the most commonly used American

gestures, ones understood throughout the United

States. We’ve included only gestures whose meaning

is symbolic, not ones that are universal expressions of

emotion, such as fear.

Phrases in quotation marks are said with the gesture

or are the exact verbal equivalents of the gesture.

Phrases in parentheses are the explanation of what

is meant.

Fists are always made with the thumb outside the

fingers.

The sign

+

indicates successive parts of a gesture.

Common

Gestures

American Gestures 1

1. “Hello.”

2. “Goodbye.”

1. “Hello”

2. “Goodbye”

2 American Gestures

1. “Here I am.”

2. “Please call on me.”

3. “Help, please.”

1. “Here I am.”