Wave (gesture)

Richard Nixon waving

A wave is a movement of the hand that people commonly use to greet each other but can also be used to say goodbye, merely acknowledge another's presence, call for silence, or deny someone.[1] People wave by raising their hand and moving it from side to side. Another common wave is to raise one's hand and repeatedly move the fingers downward toward the palm. A variant known as the wigglywave consists of holding the hand near shoulder level and wiggling the fingers randomly. This can be used to appear cute or flirtatious to the target of the wave. The gesture can be used to attract attention at a distance. Most commonly, though, the gesture means quite simply "hello" or "goodbye .[2][3]

The royal wave, also known as a regal wave, pageant wave, parade wave, or Miss America wave, is a similar but distinct kind of hand waving gesture in which a person executes something alternatively described as either a 'plastic grin' with 'fingers cupped' and 'forearm swaying side-to-side' or a "vertical hand with a slight twist from the wrist". The gesture is often performed, to various degrees, by different members of the British royal family, signaling anything from regality, class and control to elegance, restraint and character.[4][5]

In Europe, there are two different common forms of waving: the palm-show and the palm-hide. The palm-show is dominant across most of Europe other than Italy which predominantly uses the palm-hide wave.[6]

The different ways humans communicate with each other are plentiful, the wave gesture is one of the clear examples of how researchers get a better understanding of how they are essential part to language and thought.[7]

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References

  1. ↑ Plessis, Irina Garmashova-Du (January 1998). "Russian Male Gestures for Greeting and Bidding Farewell". Language matters. doi:10.1080/10228199808566136.
  2. ↑ Armstrong, Nancy; Wagner, Melissa (2003). Field Guide to Gestures: How to Identify and Interpret Virtually Every Gesture Known to Man. Philadelphia: Quirk Books. ISBN 1931686203.
  3. ↑ Cooke, Jean (1959). "A few gestures encountered in a virtually gestureless society". Western Folklore 18 (3): 233–237. doi:10.2307/1497708.
  4. ↑ Henninger, Danya (2013-09-06). "Wave Like Miss America, Get Freebies at Continental". Zagat. Retrieved 2013-12-13.
  5. ↑ Kindelan, Katie (2012-06-05). "Royal Wave: How Do the Royals Do It?". ABC News. Retrieved 2013-12-13.
  6. ↑ Morris, Desmond (1979). Gestures, their origins and distribution. New York: Stein and Day. p. 241. ISBN 0-8128-2607-8.
  7. ↑ Gesture. Cartmill, Erica A.; Goldin-Meadow, Susan Matsumoto, David (Ed); Hwang, Hyisung C. (Ed); Frank, Mark G. (Ed), (2016). APA handbook of nonverbal communication. APA handbooks in psychology., (pp. 307-333). Washington, DC, US: American Psychological Association, xxiv, 626 pp.


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