#gestures

What's this gesture called? A Lingthusiasm zine 

The same gesture can mean different things, or have different names in different languages. In this Lingthusiasm zine, Lauren Gawne gets enthusiastic about these "emblem gestures." 

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Why do we gesture when we talk? (Lingthusiasm podcast)

Why do we move our hands when we talk? (Tom Scott's Language Files on YouTube)

Gesture: A Slim Guide (book by Lauren Gawne, 2025, on Amazon or Bookshop)

Gestures (book by Morris et al, 1979, borrowable on archive.org)

More from Lingthusiasm

More zines that are enthusiastic about linguistics!

We also make a podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics!

and then. lol.

it feels very much like the brief burst of hope many of us had directly after COVID began making people start to talk about what the role of the government actually was vis a vis having a responsibility to care for the populace, & how quickly (but ultimately briefly) inclusive many things became to disabled people. like a lot of people started thinking "huh. are we thinking about this whole government thing wrong?" but to actually GET ALL THE WAY THERE people would have had to go a couple of steps further in examining their own position in various Systems, and they shied away from that. and then all of that possibility was just fucking crushed under the boot of rightwing reactionary backlash and things got Worse Instead.