Bragging

A Speaker talks about a Topic, which may be an action performed by the Speaker or an entity or state of affairs that they are associated with in order to suggest that the Speaker is worthy of admiration. The Speaker may give an explicit Reason why the Topic redounds to their credit. Alternatively, a Message frame element can be used to directly describe what the Speaker says, leaving the more specific Reason for admirability to be inferred. Instead of the Speaker, the action may be attributed metonymically to the Medium, or possibly the Expressor. Turkish officials boasted of giving 'tens of thousands of dollars in surreptitious payments' to a prominent American politician. He then vaunted his own clan, but failed to mention Emanuel Ungaro, who described the omission as ''lamentable''. The press release boasts that "a direct connection between the cartridge and the system" means no more having to blow dust out of game cartridges. 70's comics like Chevy Chase and Steve Martin over-stated their egotism and preened over their superiority.