• Mearcfara@lemmy.ml
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    20 hours ago

    That’s really interesting and I think you’re right. I like your term, “visual vocabulary”. Rad reply

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      7 hours ago

      I also like the term “nonverbal markers”

      I’m sure there’s a real English linguistics term but in sign language we use the term nonmanual markers (nonmanual like non-hand-al)