VCE English Language Quotes Units 3&4 PDF

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A list of excellent, comprehensive English Language Quotes that can be used in student essays....

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‘Swearing together can be a way of asserting a cultural cohesion; and Australians are famous for this.’ – Kate Holden ‘The obscenity is in the actual words themselves, and not what they refer to.’ – Kate Burridge ‘We want an American English for an American identity’ – Noah Webster ‘Perhaps the only qualities we could truly regard as un-Australian might be those regarded as inhumane, and the values that we hold in common are universal human truths.’ – Peter Goldsworthy ‘Address terms are not used randomly. They are a strategic tool for accomplishing goals and valuing and positioning ourselves and others within the “tribe”’– Howard Manns ‘A lie told often enough becomes the truth’ – Vladimir Lenin ‘The new-found need to not be offended’ – Arthur Chrenkoff ‘What unites a nation? In the case of Australian English, perhaps a rabid obsession with nicknames?’ – Chi Luu (linguist) ‘Nicknames carry a rejection of formality, and breeding familiarity’ – Chi Luu (linguist) ‘Not content with making up nicknames for all of our friends and family, Australian English also tries to make friends with the rest of the words in the dictionary.’ – Chi Luu (linguist) ‘Euphemisms are political weapons of mass destruction’ – Marina Lambrou ‘That’s the trouble with euphemisms – they can enrich language, but they can also be strategically used to mislead and disguise brutal practices, concepts and ideas’ – Marina Lambrou ‘Swearing has important social function’ – David Crystal ‘The ABC should look and sound like us’ – Stan Grant ‘As some taboo topics relax, others come to replace them’ – Kate Burridge ‘Pollies give plain English a try, we’re smarter than you think’ – Gary Nunn ‘Of all the markers of identity, language is by far the most significant’ - Bruce Moore (Lexicographer) ‘To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture.’ ― Frantz Fanon ‘Without context, words and actions have no meaning at all’ - Gregory Bateson (linguist) ‘Like variation in our manner of dress, stylistic variations in language cannot be judged as appropriate or not without reference to the participants in the interchange. For example, you would not speak to a 5-year-old child, an intimate friend, and a professor using the same style of speech.’ - Frank Parker and Kathryn Riley (linguists) ‘If you haven’t got language, you can’t be conscious’ – Alan Moore ‘If you talk to a man in a language he understands, it goes to his head. If you talk to a man in his language, it goes to his heart.’ – Nelson Mandela ‘Language tells us who we are: because we are the words we use.’ - Hugh Lunn (author) ‘Nothing unites a country more than its common language.’ – John Howard ‘Australian English functions as a significant and extremely powerful symbol of national identity.’ - Felicity Cox ‘An Australian’s greatest talent is for idiomatic invention’ – S. Baker ‘It is typically Australian to be suspicious of people who speak too well’ – Dean Fenkel (speech analyst) ‘With American lingo, we’ve imported toxic US culture’ – Andrew Herrick ‘Jargon shows social togetherness’ – David Crystal ‘Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne’ – Quentin Crisp ‘“Buddy” doesn’t mean the same thing as “mate”, mate.’ – Andrew Herrick

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‘“The chief use of slang is to show that you’re one of the gang.” What that means is that every social group has its own linguistic bonding mechanism. If there’s a group of lawyers, they have their own slang. If there’s a group of doctors they have their own slang, and so on.’ - David Crystal

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‘[Standard] English is considered very important by recruiters… Companies want people that can basically read and understand written words in the form of instruction… or any other form of official documents.’ - Jyothi in the Deccan Herald newspaper...