0 (an example of) an indirect way of saying something, especially something unpleasant: --
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.
Arabic is mystical and stresses connotations, flowery expressions, circumlocutions, cliches and abstract diction.
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.
Has a good command of a broad lexical repertoire allowing gaps to be readily overcome with circumlocutions.
To describe the time scale and location of this process, avoiding unnecessarily long circumlocutions, it is convenient to introduce some notation and terminology.
The second day, the learner once again initially avoided the form by using a circumlocution.
Linguistic analyses of the narratives revealed an overall decrease in the use of the communication strategies over time, but an increased use of circumlocution.
Instead, it must turn to periphrasis or circumlocution as the only strategies for articulating the intended notion.
