THE STUDY OF GESTURE: SOME REMARKS ON ITS HISTORY
THE STUDY OF GESTURE: SOME REMARKS ON ITS HISTORY
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手势研究：对其历史的一些评论
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1983
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A. Kendon
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作者：
A. Kendon
现代词“手势”源自拉丁语词根 gerere，意思是“承担或携带、承担自己、负责、执行或完成”。它更直接地源自中世纪拉丁词“gestura”，意思是“携带方式”或“行动方式”（Partridge，1959），在英语中它最早的使用是指携带身体、身体举止或举止的方式。后来，它在修辞学论文中被用来指在演讲中使用身体的方式，当然，这种用法包括四肢和面部的特定动作，现在，当我们使用“手势”一词时，通常会想到这些动作。现代含义可能是通过这种用法的专门化而衍生出来的。
The modern word ‘gesture’ is derived from a Latin root gerere which means ‘to bear or carry, to take on oneself, to take charge of, to perform or to accomplish.’ It derives more immediately from a Mediaeval Latin word ‘gestura’ which means ‘way of carrying’ or ‘mode of action’ (Partridge, 1959) and in its earliest uses in English it referred to the manner of carrying the body, bodily bearing or deportment. Somewhat later it came to be used in Rhetorical treatises to refer to the way in which the body was to be employed in the making of speeches and this usage included, of course, the specific actions of the limbs and face that, nowadays, we usually have in mind when the term ‘gesture’ is used. It is probably through a specialization of this usage that the modern meaning derived.