David Crystal

Beyond words | 13 December 2018

Throughout the world, the simplest gestures can mean entirely different, often contradictory, things

  • Dictionary of Gestures: Expressive Comportments and Movements in Use Around the World

    François Caradec, translated from the French by Chris Clarke

    MIT Press, pp. 324

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