Quotes Flashcards
“A benchmark of excellence that reflects correctness, precision, purity, and elegance”
(Burridge)
“All dialects are equally good for the purposes they serve”
(Burridge and Mulder)
“Every social group has its own linguistic bonding mechanism”
(Crystal)
“Youth have always used language as a code, a way of excluding others”
(McCrindle)
“An ongoing performance of identity”
(Zappavigna)
“The use of slang is a means of marking social or linguistic identity”
(Crystal)
“Australians are renown for their colloquial creativity”
(Collins)
“Jargon facilitates communication on one hand, but erects quite successful communication barriers on the other”
(Burridge)
“One person’s jargon is another person’s vocabulary”
(Mushin)
“Euphemisms are linguistic deodorisers”
(Burridge)
“Euphemisms are certainly motivated by the desire not to be offensive”
(Burridge)
“Swearing has important social functions”
(Crystal)
“Dysphemisms serve to vent strong emotion”
(Fromkin, Blair, & Collins)
“PC language reflects, and also seeks to enforce, social change”
(Allan & Burridge)
“Linguistic change runs parallel with social change”
(Taylor)
