The
NONVERBAL
of
GESTURES, SIGNS
&
BODY LANGUAGE CUES
From Adam's-Apple-Jump to Zygomatic Smile
By David B. Givens
© 2008
(Spokane, Washington: Center for Nonverbal Studies Press)
Items in this Dictionary have been researched by anthropologists, archaeologists,
biologists, linguists, psychiatrists, psychologists, semioticians, and others who have
studied human communication from a scientific point of view. Every effort has
been made to cite their work in the text. Definitions, meanings, and interpretations
left uncredited are those of the author. Gestures and consumer products with
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There have been many who, not knowing how to mingle the useful and the pleasing in the
right proportions, have had all their toil and pains for nothing . . . --Cervantes (Don Quixote)
Dedication
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Center for Nonverbal Studies