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词条 Bloviation
释义

  1. Origin

  2. See also

  3. References

{{wiktionary|bloviate|bloviation}}Bloviation is a style of empty, pompous political speech popularized by United States President Warren G. Harding, who, himself a master of the technique, described it as "the art of speaking for as long as the occasion warrants, and saying nothing".[1] The verb "to bloviate" is the act of creating bloviation. In terms of its etymology, according to one source, the word is a "compound of blow, in its sense of 'to boast' (also in another typical Americanism, blowhard), with a mock-Latin ending to give it the self-important stature implicit in its meaning."[2]

Origin

"Bloviation" in Ohio originally meant idle chatter.[3][3] Used to refer to a form of political speech, it appears in the Debates and Proceedings of the Convention for the Revision of the Constitution of the State of Ohio in the mid 19th century.[4]

See also

  • Stilted speech
  • Circumlocution
  • Filibuster
  • Verbiage

References

1. ^{{citation |title= The American Past: A Survey of American History |first=Joseph R. | last=Conlin |authorlink = Joseph R. Conlin |page=629 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8DWWbr9tCt0C&pg=PA629 |volume=2 |publisher=Cengage Learning |date=2009 |isbn=978-0-495-57289-3}}
2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-blo1.htm|title= Bloviate|authorlink=Michael Quinion|first=Michael |last=Quinion|year=1999|publisher=World Wide Words|accessdate=January 24, 2012}}
3. ^{{citation |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N0JRvfAIUFwC&pg=PA229 |title= Presidential anecdotes |first=Paul F. | last=Boller |isbn=978-0-19-509731-3 |page=229 |publisher=Oxford University Press |date=1996}}
4. ^{{citation |title=Presidential voices: speaking styles from George Washington to George W. Bush |first=Allan A. | last=Metcalf |pages=134–135 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Dh0wM9DNjbAC&pg=PA134 |isbn=978-0-618-44374-1 |date=2004 |publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt}}
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