National character of gestures
The national character of gestures. If the gesture is associated with specific external features, then the gesture symbol is associated with an abstraction.
Its content is understandable only to some people or a certain collective. These are greetings, farewells, statements, denials, a call to silence, anticipation of the pleasant. So, the Russians shake their heads back and forth in agreement, and the Bulgarians left-right. We learn about the difference between the gesture of farewell in Russia and France from Turgenev’s Nov Novel: Nezhdanoff bowed his head, and Sipyagin said goodbye to him in French manner, several times he quickly raised his hand to his own lips and nose, and went on, briskly waving his cane and whistling <> On the national character of some gestures is evidence of this fact. In Australia, New Zealand, the UK, two fingers (index and middle) with a palm turned away are a sign of victory.
But if the palm to turn to itself, the gesture is equivalent
Therefore, if the Englishman makes an offensive gesture, then the European can only be surprised, not understanding what victory is hinted at. And further. In many European countries this gesture is equivalent to the number “2”. In this regard, this situation is possible. Dissatisfied with the service of an Englishman, wishing to express his anger, he shows the European bartender two fingers with his hand turned to him – a sign offensive and the barman in response to this gesture pours two mugs of beer. With all the variety of gestures, their variability, they show stability in their incarnation.
However, there are cases when the character of the gesture changes somewhat and loses its national color. So, for the last thirty years the gesture of farewell (swinging the hand forward and backward) was replaced by the movement of the hand left-right in one plane with the palm facing the outgoing ones.
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It seems to us, in this case, we should not speak about a special kind of gestures, but about elements, acting, theatricalization of the lecture. Statements can be accompanied not by one, but by several gestures. Let’s take the sentence “This does not concern me”. At the word I use an index gesture (palm moves to the middle of the chest), this is accompanied by a gesture too (the hand is thrown forward by the palm of the hand) is not concerned – a symbolic gesture (hand swinging from side to side). Gestures, like words, are very expressive, they make the speech rude, familiar.
Such gestures, for example, are considered to be: a raised thumb when the others are clenched into a fist, as the highest score of something; clicking with your finger on the neck on the right side – “drink it”; torsion with a finger near the temple, which means “out of the mind survived”, “the mind lost.” Concluding the conversation about the gestures, we emphasize that each of them in the speech should testify to the movement of the speaker’s thoughts and feelings, to be a physical expression of his creative efforts.
Unjustified gesture, gesture for the gesture does not adorn speech, “causes laughter and humiliates the idea.” That’s why already in the first guides on eloquence were given advice on how to use gestures. So, in A. Galich’s Theory of eloquence (1830) it is said: “Nose and lips, tongue and ears can never be used without insulting decency,” “decency forbids the breast and belly to push, the back to twist, shoulders twitching,” decency prohibits theatrical grimace “. It should be borne in mind that gesticulation is also conditioned by the character of the speaker.
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