Language and Gestures

Conventional gestures are those that are part of a shared symbolic system of communication. The series Conventional Gestures makes available new research on this subject, as well as books of importance that have long been out of print.

American Gestures Alex Raffi and Richard L. Epstein	Conventional Gestures: Meaning and Methodology Richard L. Epstein, with the assistance and collaboration and illustrations by Alex Raffi Conventional gestures are those movements we make, such as waving hello and shaking hands, that are part of a learned, shared, symbolic system. In this book Richard L. Epstein working with the illustrator Alex Raffi examines how such gestures mean and how we can study them	Draft of an American Gestuary Richard L. Epstein and Alex Raffi This is a draft prepared in 2014.
Beaux Gestes Laurence Wylie Laurence Wylie (1919–1985), a renowned scholar and teacher of French at Harvard, assembled this collection of French conventional gestures after studying at the Jacques Lecoq school of mime in Paris	Espressione e Mimica Leone Augusto Rosa With 362 illustrations, the renowned artist Leone Agosto Rosa depicts in Espressione e Mimica a large range of expressions and gestures.	Diccionario de Gestos Dominicanos Faustino Pérez This dictionary of conventional gestures for the Dominican Republic contains more than 250 entries along with a substantial essay about the society, culture, and background of the people of Santo Domingo.

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Language and Gestures