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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Main Authors: Kensy Cooperrider, Natasha Abner, Susan Goldin-Meadow
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-06-01
Series:Frontiers in Communication
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fcomm.2018.00023/full