Download or read book Signs Words and Gestures written by Balthasar Fischer and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The substance underlying ordinary signs, words, and gestures in the liturgy is the theme of this collection of simple homilies offered to nurture Christians on their pilgrimage toward piety and spiritual life. Through these texts every reader will rediscover additional strength in the elementary religious practices memorized during childhood. For the homilist, the traditional symbols and texts of worship are viewed with a fresh scrutiny. A separate section of homilies for children is included.
Download or read book Rude Hand Gestures of the World written by Romana Lefevre and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2011-10-21 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With this illustrated guide, discover what hand gestures can offend others around the world—and whether you avoid making them or not is up to you. A hand gesture is arguably the most effective form of expression, whether you’re defaming a friend’s mother or telling a perfect stranger to get lost. Learn how to go beyond just flipping the bird with this illustrated guide to rude hand gestures all around the world, from asking for sex in the Middle East to calling someone crazy in Italy. Detailed photographs of hand models and subtle tips for proper usage make Rude Hand Gestures of the World the perfect companion for globe-trotters looking to offend. “If you’ve resolved to make the most of your travels, a copy of Rude Hand Gestures of the World to know what gestures you should avoid while abroad. Better safe than sorry!” —Buzzfeed
Download or read book Signs Words Gestures written by Balthasar Fischer and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Language and Gesture written by David McNeill and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-08-03 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Landmark study on the role of gestures in relation to speech and thought.
Download or read book Signs and Symbols of the Liturgy written by Michael Ruzicki and published by LiturgyTrainingPublications. This book was released on 2018 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This resource helps you prepare a reverent, artful, and interactive experience of the symbols of the liturgy followed by reflection on their meaning for groups of adults or teens.
Download or read book Grammar Gesture and Meaning in American Sign Language written by Scott K. Liddell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-03-13 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sample Text
Download or read book Exploring Signs written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces American Sign Language to babies which helps them communicate at an early age.
Download or read book Dictionary of Gestures written by Francois Caradec and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2023-08-01 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated guide to more than 850 gestures and their meanings around the world, from a nod of the head to a click of the heels. Gestures convey meaning with a flourish. A vigorous nod of the head, a bold jut of the chin, an enthusiastic thumbs-up: all speak louder than words. Yet the same gesture may have different meanings in different parts of the world. What Americans understand as the “A-OK gesture,” for example, is an obscene insult in the Arab world. This volume is the reference book we didn't know we needed—an illustrated dictionary of 850 gestures and their meanings around the world. It catalogs voluntary gestures made to communicate openly—as distinct from sign language, dance moves, involuntary “tells,” or secret handshakes—and explains what the gesture conveys in a variety of locations. It is organized by body part, from top to bottom, from head (nodding, shaking, turning) to foot (scraping, kicking, playing footsie). We learn that “to oscillate the head while gently throwing it back” communicates approval in some countries even though it resembles the headshake of disapproval used in other countries; that “to tap a slightly inflated cheek” constitutes an erotic invitation when accompanied by a wink; that the middle finger pointed in the air signifies approval in South America. We may already know that it is a grave insult in the Middle East and Asia to display the sole of one's shoe, but perhaps not that motorcyclists sometimes greet each other by raising a foot. Illustrated with clever line drawings and documented with quotations from literature (the author, François Caradec, was a distinguished and prolific historian of literature, culture, and humorous oddities, as well as a novelist and poet), this dictionary offers readers unique lessons in polylingual meaning.
Download or read book More Simple Signs written by Cindy Wheeler and published by Viking Juvenile. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Open a new world of communicationChildren have a lot to say, whether through gestures, movements, pictures or words. American Sign Language incorporates all of these natural skills, and Cindy Wheeler's book, using helpful hints and picture clues, makes these signs accessible to even the youngest child. To make the sign for tiger, show the stripes on his face, or for please, rub your heart. More Simple Signs introduces 29 words from a young child's everyday life. And the hand sign alphabet is included on the endpapers for children ready for the extra challenge."The result is a broader understanding: children don't simply learn a few words in a new languages; they learn that there's a completely different world of communication". -- Booklist for Simple Signs
Download or read book Original Signs written by David F. Armstrong and published by Gallaudet University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the origins of language, arguing that sign language and speech develeped at the same time and that language uses both auditory and visual senses.
Download or read book Christly Gestures written by Brett Webb-Mitchell and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The church is not only the central place of Christian worship but also a place of faith-filled education. Christly Gestures reframes the very meaning of religious education, exploring what the form and content of Christian learning would look like if local churches truly saw themselves as the body of Christ. Author Brett Webb-Mitchell begins with the writings of Paul, using them to clarify the biblical image of Christ's body as the community of believers. Taking this powerful analogy to heart, he suggests that Christian education must not only nurture the minds and spiritual lives of church members but also educate their bodies into the "Christly gestures" - performing acts of faith that imitate Jesus and embody the gospel in daily life. In the quest for a richer, more relevant understanding of Christian education, Webb-Mitchell provides meaningful answers to questions concerning the purpose, context, ways, and means of educating Christians today.
Download or read book Gesture and Sign Language in Human Computer Interaction written by Ipke Wachsmuth and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1998-04-15 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of an International Workshop on Gesture and Sign Language in Human-Computer Interaction held in Bielefeld, Germany, in 1997. The book presents 25 revised papers together with two invited lectures. Recently, gesture and sign language have become key issues for advanced interface design in the humanization of computer interaction: AI, neural networks, pattern recognition, and agent techniques are having a significant impact on this area of research and development. The papers are organized in sections on semiotics for gesture movement, hidden Markov models, motion analysis and synthesis, multimodal interfaces, neural network methods, and applications.
Download or read book Simplified Signs written by John D.. Bonvillian and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simplified Signs presents a system of manual sign communication intended for special populations who have had limited success mastering spoken or full sign languages. It is the culmination of over twenty years of research and development by the authors. The Simplified Sign System has been developed and tested for ease of sign comprehension, memorization, and formation by limiting the complexity of the motor skills required to form each sign, and by ensuring that each sign visually resembles the meaning it conveys. Volume 1 outlines the research underpinning and informing the project, and places the Simplified Sign System in a wider context of sign usage, historically and by different populations. Volume 2 presents the lexicon of signs, totaling approximately 1000 signs, each with a clear illustration and a written description of how the sign is formed, as well as a memory aid that connects the sign visually to the meaning that it conveys. While the Simplified Sign System originally was developed to meet the needs of persons with intellectual disabilities, cerebral palsy, autism, or aphasia, it may also assist the communication needs of a wider audience - such as healthcare professionals, aid workers, military personnel, travellers or parents, and children who have not yet mastered spoken language. The system also has been shown to enhance learning for individuals studying a foreign language. Lucid and comprehensive, this work constitutes a valuable resource that will enhance the communicative interactions of many different people, and will be of great interest to researchers and educators alike. As with all Open Book publications, this entire book is available to read for free on the publisher's website. Printed and digital editions, together with supplementary digital material, can also be found at www.openbookpublishers.com.
Download or read book Introduction to the Study of Sign Language Among the North American Indians as Illustrating the Gesture Speech of Mankind written by Garrick Mallery and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Analysis and Modeling of Faces and Gestures written by S. Kevin Zhou and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-11-04 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Analysis and Modelling of Faces and Gestures, AMFG 2007, held within the scope of ICCV 2007, the International Conference on Computer Vision. The papers review the status of recognition, analysis and modeling of face, gesture, activity, and behavior. Topics addressed include feature representation, 3D face, video-based face recognition, facial motion analysis, and sign recognition.
Download or read book Hand Gesture Recognition for Dumb and Blind Social Communication written by Shaker Kadhem Ali Al-Sharify and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-04 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gestures communication between dumbs and other people using the expression of signs language an algorithm for recognizing hand gestures of (letters or numbers or words) to by using dumb (through signs) and convert the sings into voice corresponding to sings.Gestures are one of the best ways of communication between dumbs and other people using the expression of signs language. In this book, we suggest an algorithm for recognizing hand gestures of Arabic (letters or numbers or words) to by using dumb (through signs) and convert the sings into voice corresponding to sings (letters or numbers or words). The proposed algorithm use video for the gesture of the dumb then convert the video into frames ( images), preprocessing for the resulted image must be done by removing the noise, resize the images and increase the contrast, then calculate the distance to clustering the words by using (C4.5, k-mean, k- medoid and artificial neural network), calculate the distance ( or features) by using Euclidean distance and slope where, there are eighteen features (eight features from Euclidean distance, eight features from slop, Area, and perimeter). The results in the training stage were (C4.5 gave 99.8664%, k-mean gave 97.7930%, k-medoid gave 97.3620%and ANN gave 96.538% ). While in the testing stage we used three classifiers (Euclidian Distance, Modify of the Standardize Euclidian Distance and Correlation) and the results show that (Euclidian Distance gave 94.7368%, Modify of the Standardize Euclidian Distance gave 98.2456% and Correlation gave 96.4912%) We create our database (ten videos with 814 frames.
Download or read book My Toddler Talks written by Kimberly Scanlon and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2012-11-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to using play routines to build and accelerate a child's communication skills. Includes instructions and examples, language stimulation tips, techniques, and strategies, charts to monitor progress, ways to incorporate speech development activities into daily routines, etc.
