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The 26 pages that link to Gesture, each with the reason it gives.

• Nonverbal communicationBroader topic: Gestures can accompany speech, replace it, or organize turns in conversation.

• LanguageCompared with: Gestures can accompany language or communicate without linguistic structure.

• Genre paintingRelated: Small gestures make ordinary interactions readable without requiring a dramatic event.

• Embodied cognitionRelated: Gesturing can express ideas and change how people solve problems while speaking.

• Sign languageCompared with: Gestures can accompany speech, while sign languages have conventional vocabularies and grammars.

• MimeNarrower topic: Mime builds meaning from deliberate gestures rather than spoken dialogue.

• TheatricalityRelated: Codified or emphatic gestures can make ordinary action appear performed.

• PuppetryRelated: A puppet’s restricted gestures must carry character and intention.

• Body languageBroader topic: Gestures range from conventional signs to movements that accompany speech.

• CommunicationBroader topic: Gestures can convey messages alongside speech or in its absence.

• Ballet d'actionRelated: Expressive gesture bridges formal steps and the actions of the drama.

• Narrative artRelated: Gestures let a still image imply what characters are doing and feeling.

• KinesicsBroader topic: Gestures are a central class of movements studied in kinesics.

• BowNarrower topic: Bowing is a whole-body gesture with culturally learned meanings.

• The Third of May 1808Related: The central prisoner’s outstretched arms echo a cruciform pose without resolving his terror into triumph.

• Fan danceNarrower topic: Fan movements extend the dancer’s gestures and make them visible across a stage.

• George Herbert MeadRelated: Mead’s social account begins with gestures that organize interaction before reflective thought.

• Narrative paintingRelated: A figure’s pose can make an event legible without written explanation.

• The School of AthensRelated: Plato’s upward point and Aristotle’s downward gesture make their philosophical differences visible.

• Mime artistNarrower topic: Meaningful gestures are the basic signs mime artists arrange into actions and stories.

• Performance poetryRelated: Physical movement can reinforce, complicate, or replace spoken meaning.

• Spoken languageRelated: Gestures often accompany speech but do not by themselves define spoken language.

• V signNarrower topic: The V sign communicates through a conventional hand shape rather than words.

• 6-7Related: Hand motions often accompany the phrase, making the meme visible as well as audible.

• Era of SilenceRelated: Exaggerated, legible gestures often made character intentions clear across theaters and cultures.

• Head shakeNarrower topic: Head shaking is a gesture with conventional social meanings.