Robert A. Yelle

List of John Benjamins publications for which Robert A. Yelle plays a role.

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Yelle, Robert A. 2006 The rhetoric of gesture in cross-cultural perspectiveGesture, ritual and memory, Bouissac, Paul (ed.), pp. 223–240 | Article
It has often been claimed that there is a natural or universal language of gesture, one that communicates directly without words. The present essay critically scrutinizes some older efforts to recover such a natural language of gesture, including John Bulwer’s seventeenth-century Chirologia and… read more