quotes Flashcards
Burridge, SAE
‘intrinsically superior to other varieties’
‘a benchmark of excellence that reflects correctness, precision, purity and elegance.’
‘best practice’
Australian Voices, Macquarie University, SAE
‘dominant dialect’
Pam Peters, SAE
‘More formal choices reflect serious subjects…and lend dignity, weight and authority to a communication’
Dr Evan Kidd, Broad, colloquial
‘increase your likeability’
Crystal, identity
‘…every social group has its own linguistic bonding mechanism.’
Eades, AbE
‘[Aboriginal Englishes are] a powerful vehicle for the expression of Aboriginal identity.’
Felicity Cox, identity
‘Language is a dynamic symbol of identity and culture.’
Sharon Davis, Abe
‘rule governed, legitimate language… connects Aboriginal people to culture, Country and community’
McCrindle, Teenspeak
‘… youth have always used language as a code, a way of excluding others’
Crystal, slang
‘The use of slang is a means of marking social or linguistic identity.’
Peter Collin, Australian slang
‘Australians are renowned for their colloquial creativity.’ [and their ‘colourful compounds’]
Burridge, jargon
‘Jargon facilitates communication on one hand, but erects quite successful communication barriers on the other.’
Stephen Fry, jargon
‘It is not exclusivity; it is precision’
Burridge, euphemism
‘Euphemisms are linguistic deodorisers.’
Fromkin, Blair & Collins, dysphemism
Dysphemisms serve ‘to vent strong emotion.’
Burridge & Mulder, discriminatory
‘Discriminatory language expresses cultural norms and belief systems’
Clive Hamilton, the Conversation, discriminatory
has the effect of ‘reinforcing the subjugation of people already in a weak or vulnerable position in society’.
Noam Chomsky, PC
‘… a healthy expansion of moral concern.’
Allan & Burridge, PC
‘PC language reflects, and also seeks to enforce, social change.’
Burnside & Watson, doublespeak
‘Doublespeak uses language to smuggle uncomfortable ideas into comfortable minds.’
Harold Pinter, doublespeak
‘Language is more often an instrument of concealment than revelation.’
Orwell, political language
‘Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful, murder respectable and to give the appearance of solidity to pure wind.’
