24 Apr 2025

What is gesture? Nights expert Dr Julia de Bres explains

From Nights, 9:25 pm on 24 April 2025

Gestures - we use and see them every day.

But what exactly are they and why do they play such a crucial part in human communication.

Our resident science expert, Dr Julia de Bres, sociolinguist and senior lecturer at Massey University has been giving this some thought and joins us.

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