The Language of Gestures.

Acknowledgements; Table of Figures; Introduction; Wundt and the Concept of the Gesture; The Psychophysics of Expression of Wilhelm Wundt; The Language of Gestures; I. Forms of Development of Gestural Communication; 1. Concept and General Characteristics of Gestural Communication; 2. Gestural Communication among Deaf-mutes; 3. Gestural Communication and Primitive Peoples; 4. Inherited Gestures among Civilized Peoples; 5. Gestural Signs among the Cistercian Monks; II. Basic Gestural Forms; 1. Psychological Classification of Gestures; 2. Demonstrative Gestures; 3. Imitative Gestures.

4. Connotative Gestures5. Symbolic Gestures; III. Ambiguity and Change of Meaning of Gestures; 1. The Vagueness of the Conceptual Categories; 2. The Transition of Concepts and the Change of Meaning of Gesture; IV. The Syntax of Gestural Communication; 1. The Sequence of Gestures among Deaf-mutes; 2. The Sequence of Gestures among Indians; 3. Psychological Causes of Gestural Syntax; V. The Psychological Development of Gestural Communication; 1. The Origin of Gestures from Expressive Motions; 2. Gestures and the Origin of Graphic Art; 3. Gestural Communication and Pictography.

4. The Psychological Character of Gestural Communication.

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