What's the difference between circumlocution and periphrase?

Circumlocution


Definition:

  • (n.) The use of many words to express an idea that might be expressed by few; indirect or roundabout language; a periphrase.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) His avoidance of the circumlocutions favoured by most politicians led to a popular misconception that he is a straight shooter.
  • (2) Anomic aphasics produced the fewest phonemic errors and the most multiword circumlocutions; this pattern suggests minimal word-production difficulty in anomic aphasia relative to the other aphasia syndromes.
  • (3) On several occasions, when the patient failed to name a picture which happened to be lexicalized by a polysemous word, a residual covert word form could still operate as a link between different meanings of the target word; then, the patient produces a word or a circumlocution related to one meaning which was not the illustrated meaning.
  • (4) Semantically-related errors and circumlocutions characterized the naming of aphasic and demented patients, while phonemic errors were common only in aphasics.
  • (5) In addition, the relative distribution of the three most prominent naming errors-phonemic errors, semantic errors, and multiword circumlocutions-tended to distinguish the two anomic subgroups from the other aphasia subgroups.
  • (6) When subjects did not respond correctly to phonemic cueing, a significantly greater number of phonemic errors were produced, with a concurrent decline in related words and extended circumlocutions.
  • (7) With increasing age subjects produced more circumlocutions and fewer semantic errors.
  • (8) Behind these circumlocutions and evasions lie the unmistakable reality that this republican coronation puts an end to the hopes that were generated by the biggest upheaval of the Arab spring.
  • (9) Mr Micawber was a kindly man, albeit one given to circumlocution and financial mismanagement.
  • (10) He has mastered the art of never mentioning the treasurer's name in public, exhausting every possible circumlocution.
  • (11) Semantic errors (i.e., circumlocutions, semantically related associates, and nominalizations) and perceptual errors increase with age.
  • (12) Data for the parameter of semantics revealed a significantly greater occurrence of hesitations than circumlocutions, verbal paraphasias, or revisions.

Periphrase


Definition:

  • (n.) The use of more words than are necessary to express the idea; a roundabout, or indirect, way of speaking; circumlocution.
  • (v. t.) To express by periphrase or circumlocution.
  • (v. i.) To use circumlocution.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) (1) Deviation and periphrase: while psychopathologically these breaks in the narrative are deviations from the main thread of argument, stylistically they are periphrasic statements, all having identical structures.

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