How Long to Read Greeting by Gesture and the Gesture-Language

How Long Does it Take to Read Greeting by Gesture and the Gesture-Language?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 39 minutes to read Greeting by Gesture and the Gesture-Language by Garrick Mallery

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Verbal salutations have generally been employed to explain those expressed by gesture and posture. The study of ancient literature and of modern travel has furnished many friendly phrases of anthropologic and ethnic interest. But friendly greetings were common before articulate speech prevailed. Sign-language was then the mode of communication, and gestures connected with the concepts and emotions of men preceded and influenced all historic ceremonials of greeting. So it is judicious to resort to gesture-speech, as still found surviving among some peoples and deaf-mutes, for the explanation of the existing and still more of the oldest known forms of salutation, whether verbal or silent. Undoubtedly some of the verbal forms are of recent origin and are independent of any gesture, and such cases require separate discussion; but there are many known instances where greeting is and long has been expressed by gesture without words, and others in which the words used, conjointly or independently, are but derivations from the older, perhaps disused, gestures. In this application of sign-language the characteristics of that mode of expression appear with distinctness, noticeable among which are the variety of shades of meaning conveyed by substantially the same gesture and the different modes of exhibiting the same substantive concept. Sign-language is more elastic as well as more comprehensive than oral language. Its abbreviation and symbolism are also so clear that linguistic lore and etymologic guess are not needed for their explanation. The main divisions of the subject to be now considered are I. Salutations with contact; and, II. Salutations without contact. Under the first division it is convenient to notice successively those directly connected with the sense of: touch; smell; taste — although that is not the probable order of their evolution.

How long is Greeting by Gesture and the Gesture-Language?

Greeting by Gesture and the Gesture-Language by Garrick Mallery is 97 pages long, and a total of 24,929 words.

This makes it 33% the length of the average book. It also has 30% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Greeting by Gesture and the Gesture-Language Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 16 minutes to read Greeting by Gesture and the Gesture-Language aloud.

What Reading Level is Greeting by Gesture and the Gesture-Language?

Greeting by Gesture and the Gesture-Language is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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