Gesture and sign form an integrated communication system, as do gesture and speech. Communicative acts in both systems combine categorical linguistic (words or signs) with imagistic (gestures) components. Additionally, both sign and speech can employ modifying components that convey iconic information tied to a linguistic base morpheme. An accurate analysis of communicative acts must take this third category into account.

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好事成三：交际行为包括语言、想象和修饰成分

手势和手势形成了一个集成的交流系统，手势和语音也是如此。两种系统中的交际行为都将分类语言（单词或符号）与想象（手势）成分结合在一起。此外，手语和语音都可以使用修改组件传达与语言基础语素相关的标志性信息。对交际行为的准确分析必须考虑到这第三类。