EMB135 CAPT ON THE RAMP AT BOS TAKES EVASIVE ACTION TO AVOID COLLISION WITH QUICK MOVING ACFT PUSHING BACK.

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WHILE TAXIING INTO THE RAMP AREA AT LOGAN; STOPPED ON THE TAXI LINE PARALLEL TO THE TERMINAL AND WAITED FOR THE RAMP PERSONNEL TO COME OUT TO PARK OUR ACFT. THE RAMP FOLKS WERE BUSY WITH OTHER ACFT PERPENDICULAR TO OURS ON ANOTHER GATE AT THE RAMP. THERE WAS A FLURRY OF COM BTWN OPS AND THE OTHER ACFT REGARDING A BROKEN HEADSET WHICH THE CAPT OPTED TO PUSH WITHOUT. AS THE RAMPERS WERE POSITIONING FOR THEIR PUSHBACK; THE R WING WALKER REMAINED CLOSE TO THE FRONT OF THE PUSHING ACFT. AS THE PUSH STARTED; THE TUG DRIVER ACCELERATED RAPIDLY IN SPITE OF THE R WING WALKER SIGNALING HIM TO STOP THE PUSH AS HE NOTICED OUR ACFT BEHIND THE PUSHING ACFT. I APPLIED AN EXCESSIVE AMOUNT OF THRUST (WITHIN ENG PARAMETERS) TO QUICKLY MOVE MY ACFT FROM THE PATH OF THE PUSHING ACFT WHICH WAS BASICALLY ON A RUNAWAY PATH AS THE TUG DRIVER WAS STILL NOT ACKNOWLEDGING THE FACT THAT HIS WING WALKER WAS TELLING HIM TO STOP. I SAFELY MOVED MY ACFT FROM HARM WITHOUT INCIDENT ON BOARD. UPON DISCUSSING THE ISSUE WITH THE RAMP SUPVR; I FOUND HIM UNABLE TO GRASP THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE FACT THAT THE TUG DRIVER DID NOT RESPOND TO THE WING WALKER'S INPUT (A PROB I HAVE HAD SEVERAL TIMES IN BOSTON ON PUSHBACKS WITH HAND SIGNALS; AS FOLKS THERE JUST DON'T SEEM TO UNDERSTAND STANDARD HAND SIGNALS). AS I DID NOT FEEL THAT THE GRAVITY OF THE SITUATION WAS GRASPED; I WALKED UPSTAIRS IN RAMP AND SPOKE TO A GENTLEMAN IN THE RAMP MGR'S OFFICE WHO MADE MORE EXCUSES FOR THE INCIDENT THAN I CARE TO ADMIT TO INCLUDING ACCUSING ME OF NOT BEING 'ON THE LINE' AND PULLING IN TOO FAR. HE FAILED TO GRASP THE GRAVITY OF THE SITUATION THAT HIS RAMP PERSONNEL DID NOT UNDERSTAND OR RESPOND TO STANDARD HAND SIGNALS FROM ONE OF THEIR PEERS.