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Psittacism
Psittacism is speech or writing that appears mechanical or repetitive in the manner of a parrot.〔(''Psittacism and Dead Language'' Education Week January 22, 1997 )〕 More generally it is a pejorative description of the use of words which appear to have been used without regard to their meaning.
The word is derived from the Latin term for parrots ''psittaci''〔Laqueur, Walter. ''(America, Europe, and the Soviet Union )''.〕 in an analogy with the ability of some parrots to speak human words but without any knowledge of their meaning.
Parrots, in turn, may be used as symbols of psittacism. In Flaubert's story ''Un cœur simple'' the parrot may have been used in this manner. Ben Stoltzfus wrote in ''The French Review'':
Thus, Loulou is a parrot, and at the same time a symbol of psittacism, that
malady of so many of Flaubert's characters who either parrot banalities
without thought or meaning, or are the victims of this psittacism.〔Stoltzfus, Ben. (Point of View in "Un Coeur simple" ) ''The French Review'', Vol. 35, No. 1. (Oct., 1961), pp. 19-25.〕
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