ABSTRACT
Directional movements may be of several kinds. The body-as-a-whole makes use of and expresses directions, or the torso or a limb may use a direction as its focus. The limbs and torso may approach a direction or may travel along the line of a direction, as in extending into that direction. The sign for tilting, “taking a direction,” is based on the blank rectangle which represents the vertical line. In tilting the body part involved “becomes” that direction. To achieve the appropriate expression, the limb/body part needs to be normally extended, i.e., not contracted or folded. The line of the direction must be clear. In describing tilting, the next step after freedom in choice of direction and part of the body, is to state a specific direction. The action of a body area shifting out of its normal alignment is usually a displacement of that part on a straight path.
