2026-07-17 20:50:12
"Are there any other examples of written notations for body language?
I'm aware of "dance notation", which is roughly in the same direction, I suppose." - I didn't know dance notation, will have to look into it!
There is an increasing amount of work in #linguistics on gesture, and there are some inventories of #gesture based on basic components like location, hand and finger configuration, movement. We have a research cluster on Visual Communcation where we investigate the commonalities between visual forms of communication such as emojis, gestures, and sign language: @…
Sign language of course has notational forms as well, and in this dictionary of German Sign Language, signs can be searched by location, hand form, etc.: #emojis #WorldEmojiDay