"action and gesture" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to describe physical movements or behaviors that convey meaning or emotion. For example: - The actress's performance was compelling, with every action and gesture carefully crafted to convey her character's turmoil. - In his speech, the politician used grandiose hand gestures and dramatic pauses to emphasize his points. - The coach emphasized the importance of body language and precise actions, as well as verbal communication, for effective teamwork.
Seeking an immediate impact, most poets made their poems strikingly visual in character, more dramatic than reflective, and revealed psychology and motives through action and gesture.
At its best, Mr. Fomenko's production, performed in Russian at the Baryshnikov Arts Center in a too-short run, finds apt ways to translate Tolstoy's storytelling into action and gesture.
Neuroscience research also shows connections between thought, action and gesture.
Action and gesture can both be used to promote analogical reasoning, but a subset of verbal analogies and metaphors can specifically capitalize on embodied concepts (Lakoff & Johnson, 1980).
From these findings, it has been argued that gestural laterality is simply a reflection of lateral bias in all actions (e.g., Willems and Hagoort 2007), but complex processes may underlie the relationship between language, action, and gesture, which still deserve to be investigated (see ' Manual asymmetries in human and nonhuman primates').
He looked around, apparently bewildered by our unexpected action, and gestured a faint greeting with both arms, a mechanical smile lighting his pale face for an instant.
Early drafts often include only brief suggestions for planned shots, but by the date of production a screenplay may evolve into a detailed shooting script, in which action and gestures are explicitly stated.
Gestures are spontaneously used to convey action and gestures can both represent and resemble actions.
The information in the script was categorized as structure or action, and gestures appropriate for each were devised.
Relationships between semantic knowledge of objects and actions, and gesture frequency and form was analysed in the two conditions.
Cohen's kappa agreement for categorizing gestures was 0.97 (p < .01) for action and structure gesture, and 0.66 (p < .01) for categorizing gestures into invented and imitated.
