Ep. 320 - Human Element Series - Using Gestures To Enhanced Communications with Lauren Gawne

Today we are joined by Lauren Gawne. Lauren is a Senior Lecturer in linguistics at La Trobe University. Her work focuses on understanding how people use gestures and grammar, with a particular focus on cross-cultural gesture use. Lauren also does research on emoji, scicomm and the grammar of Tibetan languages in Nepal. [Sept 8, 2025]

00:00 – Intro

01:40 – Intro Links

• Social-Engineer.com– http://www.social-engineer.com/
• Managed Voice Phishing– https://www.social-engineer.com/services/vishing-service/
• Managed Email Phishing– https://www.social-engineer.com/services/se-phishing-service/
• Adversarial Simulations– https://www.social-engineer.com/services/social-engineering-penetration-test/
• Social-Engineer channel on SLACK– https://social-engineering-hq.slack.com/ssb
• CLUTCH– http://www.pro-rock.com/
• org– http://www.innocentlivesfoundation.org/

02:40 – Lauren Gawne Intro

03:02 – Foreign Gestures

03:59 – Linguistical Mad Libs

05:37 – Universal Traits

07:47 – This Isn’t Taught

10:07 – Head Shaking Confusion

12:41 – The Weirdness of Writing

14:31 – Deception Detection

17:46 – Got The Time?

21:39 – Assigning Space

23:06 – The Cross Culture Conundrum

27:31 – Find Lauren Gawne Online

• Website: https://lingthusiasm.com/
• Blog: https://www.superlinguo.com/
• Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/superlinguo.bsky.social

28:48 – Book Recommendations

• The Murderbot Diaries – Martha Wells
• Gesture – Lauren Gawne

30:39 – Mentors

• Barbara Kelly

31:58 – Guest Wrap Up & Outro

• social-engineer.com
• innocentlivesfoundation.org