circumlocutory

Examples of circumlocution

circumlocution
Although some view circumlocution as pathological, it can be of great value in maintaining communication.
One can also encourage circumlocution, describing a word without using the word itself.
Can use circumlocution and paraphrase to cover gaps in vocabulary and structure.
With it one can formulate properties of functions that would otherwise require circumlocution and notational fuss.
They employed, instead, sly ambiguities and insinuating circumlocutions.
Presumably, then, a decrease in redundancy (despite the growing importance of tonal traits) would lead to circumlocutions which, when lexicalised, may re-enter the erosion phase.
There are several involuntary repetitions of words and phrases, some unintelligible speech (jargon), circumlocutions, and problems of word-finding.
Instead, it must turn to periphrasis or circumlocution as the only strategies for articulating the intended notion.
Linguistic analyses of the narratives revealed an overall decrease in the use of the communication strategies over time, but an increased use of circumlocution.
The second day, the learner once again initially avoided the form by using a circumlocution.
To describe the time scale and location of this process, avoiding unnecessarily long circumlocutions, it is convenient to introduce some notation and terminology.
Has a good command of a broad lexical repertoire allowing gaps to be readily overcome with circumlocutions.
In the case of circumlocution, the speaker encodes the conceptual features of the intended lexical item separately, thus changing the whole of the preverbal chunk.
Arabic is mystical and stresses connotations, flowery expressions, circumlocutions, cliches and abstract diction.
However, there may have been considerably more occurrences of gaps for the learners, but, because they did not previously use circumlocution, the gap was not observable to the researchers.
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