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Circumlocution is a figure of speech where the meaning of a word or phrase is indirectly expressed through several or many words. It may be used when defining a term, for example: "scissors" = "a thing you use to cut other things". Circumlocution is often helpful while learning a new language, when one does not know the word for a particular thing. In the constructed language Basic English this is used to decrease the size of the necessary vocabulary.
Circumlocution also means replacing a word with another (or others), often in order to sound more polite, to avoid a controversial or trademarked term or to be ironic. In this context, see also euphemism.
Sometimes, circumlocution is used to insert a controversial or trademarked name into a well-known phrase for comic effect, for example, "I believe in calling a spade a Spear and Jackson 16B."
Charles Dickens dedicated Chapter 10 of his novel Little Dorrit to writing about “The Circumlocution Office”. This is a reference to the inefficiencies within the British Government in the early 1800s.
Circumlocution can also be associated with types of Aphasia including Anomic aphasia, Wernicke's aphasia and Conduction aphasia.
Circumlocution also means replacing a word with another (or others), often in order to sound more polite, to avoid a controversial or trademarked term or to be ironic. In this context, see also euphemism.
Sometimes, circumlocution is used to insert a controversial or trademarked name into a well-known phrase for comic effect, for example, "I believe in calling a spade a Spear and Jackson 16B."
Charles Dickens dedicated Chapter 10 of his novel Little Dorrit to writing about “The Circumlocution Office”. This is a reference to the inefficiencies within the British Government in the early 1800s.
Circumlocution can also be associated with types of Aphasia including Anomic aphasia, Wernicke's aphasia and Conduction aphasia.
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References
- Smyth, Herbert Weir (1920). Greek Grammar. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, p. 681. ISBN 0-674-36250-0.
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A figure of speech, sometimes termed a rhetoric, or elocution, is a word or phrase that departs from straightforward, literal language. Figures of speech are often used and crafted for emphasis, freshness of expression, or clarity. However, clarity may also suffer from their use.
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A constructed or artificial language — known colloquially/informally as a conlang — is a language whose phonology, grammar, and/or vocabulary have been devised by an individual or group, instead of having naturally evolved as part of a culture.
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Basic English is a constructed language with a small number of words created by Charles Kay Ogden and described in his book Basic English: A General Introduction with Rules and Grammar (1930).
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trademark or trade mark[1] is a distinctive sign or indicator of some kind which is used by an individual, business organization or other legal entity to uniquely identify the source of its products and/or services to consumers, and to distinguish its products or
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Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens is acclaimed as one of history's greatest novelists
Born: 7 January 1812
Portsmouth, England
Died: 9 May 1870 (aged 58)
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Charles Dickens is acclaimed as one of history's greatest novelists
Born: 7 January 1812
Portsmouth, England
Died: 9 May 1870 (aged 58)
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Little Dorrit is a serial novel by Charles Dickens published originally between 1855 and 1857. It is a work of satire on the shortcomings of the government and society of the period.
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MeSH D000849 Nominal aphasia, a variety of anomic aphasia, is a form of aphasia (loss of language capability caused by brain damage) in which the subject has difficulty remembering or recognizing names which the subject should know well.
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Receptive aphasia
Classification & external resources
Broca's area and Wernicke's area
ICD-10 F 80.2
ICD-9 315.32
MeSH D001041 Receptive aphasia, also known as Wernicke’s aphasia, fluent aphasia, or
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Classification & external resources
Broca's area and Wernicke's area
ICD-10 F 80.2
ICD-9 315.32
MeSH D001041 Receptive aphasia, also known as Wernicke’s aphasia, fluent aphasia, or
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MeSH D018886 Conduction aphasia, also called associative aphasia, is a relatively rare form of aphasia, thought to be caused by a disruption in the fiber pathways connecting Wernicke's and Broca's areas.
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In linguistics, an auxiliary (also called helping verb, auxiliary verb, or verbal auxiliary) is a verb functioning to give further semantic or syntactic information about the main or full verb following it.
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In linguistics, a compound is a lexeme (a word) that consists of more than one other lexeme.
An endocentric compound consists of a head, i.e. the categorical part that contains the basic meaning of the whole compound, and modifiers, which restrict this meaning.
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An endocentric compound consists of a head, i.e. the categorical part that contains the basic meaning of the whole compound, and modifiers, which restrict this meaning.
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inflection or inflexion is the modification or marking of a word (or more precisely lexeme) to reflect grammatical (that is, relational) information, such as gender, tense, number or person.
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periphrasis is a device by which a grammatical concept is expressed by more than one word (typically one or more function words modifying a content word), instead of being shown by inflection or derivation.
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