Gestures are bodily movements that enhance verbal communication by conveying thoughts or emotions, including eye contact, posture, and facial expressions. They can be categorized into descriptive, emphatic, suggestive, and prompting gestures, each serving different functions in communication. For example, descriptive gestures illustrate specific details, emphatic gestures express emotions, suggestive gestures convey moods, and prompting gestures encourage audience participation.

1. PREPARED BY: KERWIN D. PALPAL

2. What are Gestures?
• Gesture are specific bodily movement
that reinforce verbal message or convey
a particular thought or emotion.
• It include eye contact, posture and
facial expression.

3. Types of Gestures
Descriptive Emphatic Suggestive Prompting

4. Descriptive Gestures
• used to describe size, shape, movement,
location, number, etc.
• improve the impact of the speech and
improve comprehension of audience.

7. Emphatic Gestures
• used to emphasize feelings or emotions.
• Example:
Clenched fist or angry face – symbolizes
anger
• helps the speaker to appear more
genuine.

9. Suggestive Gestures
• These are gestures that depict
moods or emotion.
• Example
Welcoming your audience with open
arms

11. Prompting Gestures
• They are used to evoke a desired
response from the audience. If you want
your listeners to raise their hands,
applaud or perform some specific
action, it’ll be effective if you do it
yourself.