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- Circumlocution abstract "Circumlocution (also called circumduction, circumvolution, periphrasis, or ambage) is locution that circles around a specific idea with multiple words rather than directly evoking it with fewer and apter words. It is sometimes a necessary tool of communication (for example, in getting around lexical gaps to overcome untranslatability), but it is also often a flaw in communication (for example, when it is a figure of speech that is unnecessarily ambiguous and obscure). Ambiguity means that information can have multiple meanings. Roundabout speech refers to using many words (such as "a tool used for cutting things such as paper and hair") to describe something for which a concise (and commonly known) expression exists ("scissors"). The vast majority of definitions found in dictionaries are circumlocutory. Circumlocution is often used by aphasics and people learning a new language, where in the absence of a word (such as "abuelo" [grandfather]) the subject can simply be described ("el padre de su padre" [the father of one's father]). Euphemism, innuendo, and equivocation are different types of ambiguous and roundabout language (i.e. circumlocution).".
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- Circumlocution wikiPageWikiLink Accidental_gap.
- Circumlocution wikiPageWikiLink Ambiguity.
- Circumlocution wikiPageWikiLink Analytic_language.
- Circumlocution wikiPageWikiLink Aphasia.
- Circumlocution wikiPageWikiLink Auxiliary_verb.
- Circumlocution wikiPageWikiLink Bakers_dozen.
- Circumlocution wikiPageWikiLink Blues.
- Circumlocution wikiPageWikiLink Category:Figures_of_speech.
- Circumlocution wikiPageWikiLink Category:Poetry_articles_needing_expert_attention.
- Circumlocution wikiPageWikiLink Category:Rhetoric.
- Circumlocution wikiPageWikiLink Communication.
- Circumlocution wikiPageWikiLink Compound_(linguistics).
- Circumlocution wikiPageWikiLink Devil.
- Circumlocution wikiPageWikiLink Dozen.
- Circumlocution wikiPageWikiLink Equivocation.
- Circumlocution wikiPageWikiLink Euphemism.
- Circumlocution wikiPageWikiLink Figure_of_speech.
- Circumlocution wikiPageWikiLink Hell.
- Circumlocution wikiPageWikiLink Inflection.
- Circumlocution wikiPageWikiLink Innuendo.
- Circumlocution wikiPageWikiLink Jesus.
- Circumlocution wikiPageWikiLink Macbeth.
- Circumlocution wikiPageWikiLink Mary_(mother_of_Jesus).
- Circumlocution wikiPageWikiLink Obfuscation.
- Circumlocution wikiPageWikiLink Periphrasis.
- Circumlocution wikiPageWikiLink Phrase.
- Circumlocution wikiPageWikiLink Scissors.
- Circumlocution wikiPageWikiLink Sesquipedalianism.
- Circumlocution wikiPageWikiLink Significant_other.
- Circumlocution wikiPageWikiLink Superstition.
- Circumlocution wikiPageWikiLink Taboo.
- Circumlocution wikiPageWikiLink The_Scottish_Play.
- Circumlocution wikiPageWikiLink Triskaidekaphobia.
- Circumlocution wikiPageWikiLink Untranslatability.
- Circumlocution wikiPageWikiLink Verbosity.
- Circumlocution wikiPageWikiLink Wikt:apt.
- Circumlocution wikiPageWikiLink Word.
- Circumlocution wikiPageWikiLinkText "Circumlocution".
- Circumlocution wikiPageWikiLinkText "Periphrases".
- Circumlocution wikiPageWikiLinkText "ambiguity".
- Circumlocution wikiPageWikiLinkText "amphilogism".
- Circumlocution wikiPageWikiLinkText "circumlocution".
- Circumlocution wikiPageWikiLinkText "compound tenses".
- Circumlocution wikiPageWikiLinkText "periphrastic".
- Circumlocution wikiPageWikiLinkText "poetic circumlocution".
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- Circumlocution subject Category:Figures_of_speech.
- Circumlocution subject Category:Poetry_articles_needing_expert_attention.
- Circumlocution subject Category:Rhetoric.
- Circumlocution hypernym Locution.
- Circumlocution type Article.
- Circumlocution type Article.
- Circumlocution type Humanity.
- Circumlocution type Technique.
- Circumlocution type Term.
- Circumlocution comment "Circumlocution (also called circumduction, circumvolution, periphrasis, or ambage) is locution that circles around a specific idea with multiple words rather than directly evoking it with fewer and apter words. It is sometimes a necessary tool of communication (for example, in getting around lexical gaps to overcome untranslatability), but it is also often a flaw in communication (for example, when it is a figure of speech that is unnecessarily ambiguous and obscure).".
- Circumlocution label "Circumlocution".
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- Circumlocution sameAs Перифраза.
- Circumlocution sameAs Troadell_(yezhoniezh).
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- Circumlocution sameAs Periphrase.
- Circumlocution sameAs Perifrazo.
- Circumlocution sameAs Perífrasis_(retórica).
- Circumlocution sameAs Perifrasi.
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- Circumlocution sameAs Perífrase.
- Circumlocution sameAs Perifraza.
- Circumlocution sameAs Körülírás.
- Circumlocution sameAs Շրջասություն.
- Circumlocution sameAs Perifrasa.
- Circumlocution sameAs Perifrazo.
- Circumlocution sameAs Perifrasi.
- Circumlocution sameAs 迂言法.
- Circumlocution sameAs Перифраз.
- Circumlocution sameAs Перифраза.
- Circumlocution sameAs Perifrase_(stijlfiguur).
- Circumlocution sameAs Perifrase.
- Circumlocution sameAs Circomlocucion.
- Circumlocution sameAs Peryfraza.
- Circumlocution sameAs Perífrase.
- Circumlocution sameAs m.019679.
- Circumlocution sameAs Перифраз.
- Circumlocution sameAs Pirìfrasi.
- Circumlocution sameAs Perifráza.
- Circumlocution sameAs Perifraza.
- Circumlocution sameAs Перифраза.