Editing Gesture (section)

==== Communicative (active) ====

[[File:I Want You for U.S. Army by James Montgomery Flagg.jpg|upright|thumb|U.S. Army recruitment poster]]
Communicative gestures are gestures that are produced intentionally and meaningfully by a person as a way of intensifying or modifying speech produced in the vocal tract (or with the hands in the case of sign languages), even though a speaker may not be actively aware that they are producing communicative gestures.<ref name=":12" />

For instance, on the U.S. Army recruitment poster of Uncle Sam, he is pointing and sending a non-verbal form of gesture by implying he wants the viewer to join the U.S. Army. This is a form of symbolic gesture, usually used in the absence of speech.<ref name=":5" />