ABSTRACT
The first type is called iconic gestures. The second type of gesture is called a metaphoric gesture. These are gestures whose particular form displays a close relationship to the meaning of the accompanying speech. Harold Macmillan's gestures did not show this degree of anticipation, or indeed any degree of anticipation. Consequently, they looked false and almost certainly were false, owing more to Quintilian and work on classic rhetoric than the human mind in spontaneous action. As David McNeill himself says: 'Speech and gesture refer to the same event and are partially overlapping, but the pictures they present are different. According to McNeill, here the speaker makes the genre of the cartoon, which is an abstract concept, concrete in the form of a gestural image of a bounded object supported in the hands and presented to the listener.
