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The title page of a zine - black and green digital production handwriting-style font Title: Gestures with Names! Additional text: Quiz your friends! A Lingthusiasm Zine Cool! Image: A large black outline drawing of a thumbs up To the left: A photo of a physical copy of the zineALT
A large black outline drawing of a thumbs up in center Name: Thumbs Up Users: Originally Western Europe & North America, now very global Means: great, yeah! it's not universal!!! Bullet points: 'up' for scuba divers 'man' in Japanese 'one' in some counting a rude gesture in Bangladesh & some Middle Eastern countries!ALT
Text: Which of these gestures mean something to you? Does it have a name? See if other people agree! Black line images of nine gestures 1. palm out three fingers raised, thumb and pinky curled in 2. raised thumb, other fingers curled in 3. raised pinky finger, other fingers curled in 4. raised index and middle finger spread, other fingers curled in 5. raised thumb, index and pinky, index and ring fingers curled in 6. thumb and index crossed at the top knuckles, other fingers curled in 7. palm open and out, all fingers uncurled and a spread between ring and middle finger 8. index and pinky extended, other fingers curled in 9. fingers curled into a fist with the thumb tucked inside the index fingerALT
Text: sometimes found across languages image: Europe with the northern countries circled and labeled as the OG thumbs up zone - citation Morris et al. 1979 Text: sometimes found in subcultures image of index and pinky extended, other fingers curled in labelled metal heads image of thumb and index crossed at the top knuckles, other fingers curled in labelled KPop fansALT
The back cover of the zine, which says: Learn more about emblem gestures!

Why do we move our hands when we talk? (Tom Scott's Language Files on Youtube) Why do we gesture when we talk? (Lingthusiasm podcast episode) 
Gesture: A Slime Guide (Book by Lauren Gawne) These links & more linguistics zines: lingthusiasm.com/zines Text & layout by Lauren Gawne Hands by Lucy Maddox Brought to you by lingthusiasm: a podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics Feel free to photocopy, share & remix! Next to the back cover is a photo of several zines in front of a potted plantALT

What’s this gesture called? A Lingthusiasm zine 

The same gesture can mean different things, or have different names in different languages. In this Lingthusiasm zine, Lauren Gawne gets enthusiastic about these “emblem gestures." 

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