noting that "almost any action can operate as an Insult Signal if it is performed out of its appropriate context - at the wrong time or in the wrong place", classes such signals in ten "basic categories":
# Uninterest signals
# Boredom signals
# Impatience signals
# Superiority signals
# Deformed-compliment signals
# Mock-discomfort signals
# Rejection signals
# Mockery signals
# Symbolic insults
# Dirt signals

Elizabethans took great interest in such