Archive for the ‘Nonverbal communication’ Category

Body language

April 10, 2012

Today’s Zippy has some very specific gestures:

This is one step beyond the gestures in this Zippy strip from last year, in which body language mostly communicates feelings. Here, a single gesture conveys an entire specific text. That is, Zippy’s “body language” seems to be non-compositional — like a codebook, rather than an actual language.


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