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Immediately after Alice has produced the gesture, Charlie produces virtually thesame gesture sequence in which his hands come together:http://youtu.be/Nw6aGS0_rEoCharlie like er .. you know ..sometimes we say you knowthe rich people become richbecause they have the moneyas their res- resources? ..Both hands palms openrotating gesturethey can use it to .. er .. toinvest in a lot of ()and earn money back fromthat but .. some people theyare not that richand keep on working andthey don’t use this money to.. for investmentsHands still rotating come muchcloser togetherso they don’t get more moneybackthey just ..What he appears to be echoing here is the idea of ‘going from something largeto something small’. These gestures appear to correspond to a metaphor ofopenness and closedness to represent the different ways of dealing with moneyand the different attitudes towards it.The importance of choosing our metaphors and accompanying gestures carefullyis illustrated by the fact that international students often echo both our words andour gestures, often immediately after we have used them ourselves, as we can seein the following example:International Students | 375