Communication Quote by Kate Burridge Download Open image “A non-standard dialect is as valid communication system as the standard” — Kate Burridge ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Communication Dialect Standards
“Standard English as it is presented by grammarians and pedants is a dialect that is based on a mostly fictional, static, and Platonic ideal… — Kory Stamper Copy Share Image
Dialect or the speech of the people is capable of expressing whatever the people are. — Sterling K. Brown Copy Share Image
“The most elementary communication is not possible without some degree of conformity to the “conventions” of the symbolic system.” — Talcott Parsons Copy Share Image
Standard English is very imperialistic, controlled, and precise; it's not got a lot of funk or soul to it. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“The worst type of communication is "no communication". The best type of communication is clarification.” — Sarah Tse Copy Share Image
Remember - the universal language is not texted, emailed, or spoken. It is felt. — Angela Ahrendts Copy Share Image
[On political correctness:] Any intended message mattered less than the received message, and every received message could be interpreted in whatever way the receiver… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
“Standard languages are inventions, most of them confined to a recent period in human history. They are codes that give access not to clear… — Robert Lane Greene Copy Share Image
what has been termed 'correct' English is nothing other than the blatant legitimation of the white middle-class code. — Dale Spender Copy Share Image
'Bloody' has now become an important indicator of Australianness and of cultural values such as friendliness, informality, laid-backness, mateship - and perhaps even the… — Kate Burridge Copy Share Image
Underhand euphemism are used, not so much to conceal offence and to deliberately disguise a topic and deceive — Kate Burridge Copy Share Image
Because of the way our society is structures, using sentences such as "I don't it" can put people at a disadvantage. And this is,… — Kate Burridge Copy Share Image
All taboos serve different human interests by avoiding those things which threaten to cause offence or distress — Kate Burridge Copy Share Image
All euphemisms are dishonest, but many are designed to make life easier — Kate Burridge Copy Share Image
Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom… — Emily Robison Copy Share Image
The problem posed by indirect speech acts is the problem of how it is possible for the speaker to say one thing and mean… — John Searle Copy Share Image
Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
“To engage in dialogue is to serve others via whatever is real inside you; to engage in debate is to ultimately serve the illusions… — Oli Anderson Copy Share Image
What it comes down to for me is this: Will the technologies of communication in our culture, serve to enlighten us and help us… — Roger Waters Copy Share Image
In dialogue, there is opposition, yes, but no head-on collision. Smashing heads does not open minds. — Deborah Tannen Copy Share Image
A dialogue is very important. It is a form of communication in which question and answer continue till a question is left without an… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
I get afraid of the dark if I'm in a great deal of dark, and I have to move around inside of that fear...… — Emil Ferris Copy Share Image
I've been in a serious conversation with one of my children, and a fan has come up. I've been in a public bathroom and… — Helen Reddy Copy Share Image
Life as we know it is fundamentally unsatisfying. I think most folks feel this to be true. They know that a life of aimless… — Michael Yates Copy Share Image