

This visual study examines socio-political gestures as language symbols and a major unit of nonverbal communication. It consists of three sections, each of which examines gestures from different perspectives: gestures as phenomena, gestures of political, religious, and legal figures.


Most political, religious, and legal leaders reproduce gestures that are part of the common cultural code. These gestures are easily recognizable, which leverages their influence on the audience.

Independently, gestures have a pictorial function, while together with words they strengthen the utterance and complement its nominative, naming function, and influence the meaning.