nonmanual
- adjective
- /nɒnˈmæn.ju.əl/
- Specialized
- In sign language, nonmanual signals like facial expressions are crucial for conveying emotion.
Examples
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Teachers often emphasize the importance of nonmanual cues to help students improve their sign language skills.
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Many deaf individuals incorporate nonmanual markers to enhance their communication beyond hand signs.
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In 1938, 1940, and 1942, neither Concordancia nor the UCR registered significant correlations with the disjunction between manual and nonmanual workers that we have emphasized in our analysis.
Academic text (1998) -
One example would be the elections of Constituyentes in 1948, when the CO as well as the PC ran: the CO had a correlation of .77 with manual workers, -.68 with nonmanual workers, and -.75 with professionals.
Academic text (1998) -
For this new equation that Snow gave to Lewis-Beck, the values were urban manual workers .28, urban nonmanual workers -.47, rural nonmanual workers -3.07, and internal migrants .30, all of them significant (R2 equals .24).
Academic text (1998) -
In 1946, the spatial profiles of radicalismo and socialismo were very similar, except that the UCR generally showed higher positive correlations than the PS with the nonmanual sectors and higher negative correlations with the manual sectors.
Academic text (1998)
Synonyms
10
3.7
Showing feelings and ideas without spoken or written words using gestures and facial expressions
1
8.1
The way people use voice, face, and body to show meaning without words
1
5.7
A way to send messages without using the voice, for example gestures
Actions, sounds, or gestures that communicate without spoken words
Not expressed in words but shown by actions or silence
Antonyms
How Manual
139
3.8
- Specialized
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Nonmanual joins non- 'not' and manual 'hand'. In sign language it names signals made without the hands, like facial expressions or head movements, which can change the meaning of a sign.