The Palm-Up Puzzle: Meanings and Origins of a Widespread Form in Gesture and Sign
During communication, speakers commonly rotate their forearms so that their palms turn upward. Yet despite more than a century of observations of such palm-up gestures, their meanings and origins have proven difficult to pin down. We distinguish two gestures within the palm-up form family: the palm-...
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Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2018-06-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Communication |
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Online Access: | https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fcomm.2018.00023/full |