Ngo, Hood, Martin, Painter, Smith & Zappavigna (2022: 2):
Textual meaning corresponds roughly to the beats and pointing/deictics shown in Figure 1.1 …
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To be clear, here the authors are making unacknowledged use of Cléirigh's model of body language, in which the 'beats' of gestures constitute textual linguistic semiosis when they match the rhythm and/or tonicity of speech, and pointing gestures constitute textual epilinguistic semiosis.
Cléirigh coined the term 'epilinguistic' for socio-semiotic systems that Halliday & Matthiessen (1999: 606) described as 'parasitic' on language, in the sense that they require the prior evolution and development of language. Epilinguistic systems are also distinguished from language in being bi-stratal only; that is, their content plane is not stratified into semantics and lexicogrammar.
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