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Circumlocution (also called circumduction, circumvolution, periphrasis, kenning, [1] [dubious – discuss] or ambage [citation needed]) is the use of an unnecessarily large number of words to express an idea.
A list of reflexes in humans. Abdominal reflex; Accommodation reflex — coordinated changes in the vergence, lens shape and pupil size when looking at a distant object after a near object. Acoustic reflex or attenuation reflex — contraction of the stapedius and tensor tympani muscles in the middle ear in response to high sound intensities.
Currently, many studies have shown that certain patterns of body movements are indicative of specific emotions. [2] [3] Researchers studied sign language and found that even non-sign language users can determine emotions from only hand movements. [4] Another example is the fact that anger is characterized by forward whole body movement. [5]
Emblems - Body movements or gestures that are directly translatable into a word or phrase; Illustrators - Accompany or reinforce verbal messages Batons - Temporally accent or emphasize words or phrases; Ideographs - Trace the paths of mental journeys; Deictic movements - Point to a present object; Kinetographs - Depict a bodily action
It is generally accepted in psycholinguistics that (1) when the beginning of a word is heard, a set of words that share the same initial sound become activated in memory, [5] (2) the words that are activated compete with each other while more and more of the word is heard, [6] (3) at some point, due to both the auditory input and the lexical ...
Laban movement analysis (LMA), sometimes Laban/Bartenieff movement analysis, is a method and language for describing, visualizing, interpreting and documenting human movement. It is based on the original work of Rudolf Laban , which was developed and extended by Lisa Ullmann , Irmgard Bartenieff , Warren Lamb and others.
The word is derived from the Latin word verbum (also the source of verbiage), plus the verb gerĕre, to carry on or conduct, from which the Latin verb verbigerāre, to talk or chat, is derived. However, clinically the term verbigeration never achieved popularity and as such has virtually disappeared from psychiatric terminology.
Circumduction may refer to: Circumduction (anatomy), the circular movement of a limb; Circumduction (rhetoric), an ambiguous or roundabout figure of speech