The gestural one of the Finger S and the Main S constitutes true a language. So much of gestures are universal, the significance of the conscious gestures is on the other hand generally cultural.

Conscious gestures

To applaud

In Western civilization, the spontaneous applause marks the Joie. One also applauds the Artiste S to congratulate them, at the end of a spectacle or after a passage particularly appreciated. Lastly, one applauds somebody (at the time of a reception for example) to testify to him to the consideration or attachment.

In Eastern civilizations, the celebrated person joint with the applause.

The applause is obtained by beating the two hands palm against palm.

Claquer of the fingers

One uses the slapping of fingers to mark a rate/rhythm or a tempo, to prevent, draw the attention or to be made obey.

To obtain it, it is necessary:

# to fold the auricular one and the annular one,

# to flat oppose the last phalange of the inch and that of major,

# to exert a light pressure between these two fingers,

# to initiate a movement of major towards the palm of the hand. It is the sudden release of major which produces the slapping.

There exists also another method, which does not go inevitably for everyone:

# to put its inch in the middle of the index,

# to leave the major one, a little left the end turned towards the palm of the hand, to keep the other fingers bent,

# to apply a strong pressure of the inch to the index, which then slips on the major one and produces the sound.

To roll the inches

To roll the inches marks the trouble. The two hands united at the ends of the fingers or the gotten mixed up fingers, the inches turn one around the other.

To strike its index against its temple

This gesture is used to intimate to reflect. A translation could be Sers of your brain . If the gesture is repeated several times, it indicates that one considers that a person is insane. This gesture is very often employed by Obélix at the same time as its sentence fetish " They are insane, these Romans! "

To turn its index against its temple

This gesture is used to indicate the madness, just like to type its index several times on its temple. This gesture is also used to indicate to a person to reflect.

To cross the index and the major one

This gesture can be intended to carry chance. I cross the fingers so that you arrive there .

It makes an oath null and void and without value.

Ears of ass

This gesture is a childish mockery. The unfolded index and the major one, the hand is placed behind the head of the victim, the two fingers then evoking the large ears of an ass. This gesture is a very current joke at the time of the catch of photographs, the victim does not realize of nothing and is seen furnished with two ears of ass on photography.

The hand on the heart

To strike its heart with the dish of its hand (possibly closed) is a sign of affection or friendship, in particular at the Moslems.

To raise the finger

To raise the arm or before arm with the index tended upwards and the other fingers of the hand folded up is a gesture running to require the word. It is the epic of the schoolboys in the class.

To tighten the fist tightened towards the sky

This gesture is generated by a strong immediate feeling. It is according to circumstances signs of a victory or an anger.

Useful gestures

Hand with the face

The hand, on horizontal, rests against the face over the entire length of the inch and the index. This gesture is intended to protect from the sun.

Unconscious gestures

An incalculable number of gestures Inconscient S reveal our emotions, our Sentiment S, our thoughts and our Désir S. It would be impossible to enumerate them all, nor to give them an exact significance. Their interpretation is only Empirique and depends largely on the context in which they are carried out.

To tighten the fists

In the event of latent anguish, it is frequent to tighten the fists without realizing some. A study in Psychology carried out in the streets of New York and consisting in filming the passers by showed that, when two people cross of rather near, they tighten the fists without realizing some.

Face in the hands

To hide its face in its hands very often translates an anguish, a state of tiredness or stress. But there exists many other ways of carrying its hands to the face, and their significance can be completely different.

Palm against the face

Generally this epic marks the aggravation of the subject.

To rub the hands

Gesture of the manipulators and the calculators. One rubs usually the hands when one is pleased with the development of one (bad) blow particularly refined, and that one is delighted in advance by his conséquences.
To rub the hands translates also the haste of somebody to see something occurring, without for all this that is malevolent.

To be encumbered by its hands

When a subject is badly at ease, it is frequent that it cannot what make its hands.

See too

• body Language at the Man

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