The

NONVERBAL

DICTIONARY

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

current trademark registrations are identified with the ® symbol.


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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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