On Generation Mechanism and Development Mechanism of Chinese Network Language by Cai Ruiying

“…Furthermore, as a specific dialect, Internet slang is distinct from everyday language, regardless of whether it is written language or colloquial language. Previous Chinese researches focus on coverage of Chinese network language, but they seldom focus on substance of it. …”
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Kulturowe uwikłania współczesnego dyskursu (stylu) religijnego – zarys problematyki by Maria Wojtak

“…She shows the results of the clash between the traditional components of the religious style and the colloquial Polish language.…”
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Miron Białoszewski’s Pamiętnik z powstania warszawskiego in Italy by Bernardini Luca

“…This article discusses several translation and editing issues concerning the Italian edition of Białoszewski’s text, such as the challenge of transposing the writer’s register, defined by Barańczak’s (1976) as “childish” and “colloquial”, and which came to be somehow obscured by editing conventions. …”
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Cleaning up the Dirty Squad: Using the Obscene Publications Act as a Weapon of Social Control by Paul Bleakley

“…Formed as a result of the introduction of the Obscene Publications Act 1959, the Obscene Publications Squad – known colloquially as the “Dirty Squad” – controlled a web of corruption and managed the proliferation of pornography in the Central London district of Soho. …”
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Univerbizované názvy institucí – stylová hodnota, expresivita a vhodnost jejich užití z hlediska jazykové kultury by IVANA KOLÁŘOVÁ

“…They are stylistically differentiated: some of them are standard (devítiletka, jednotøídka), others are slightly substandard – colloquial (prùmyslovka, akciovka) or more substandard – slangy: uèòák, beròák, dìcák. …”
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Speech level shift in Japanese and Slovene by Jasmina BAJRAMI

“…In Slovene the level of formality or politeness in conversation is mainly expressed by the use of formal language and general colloquial language. Speech level shift is a shift from one speech level to another – e.g. from a formal style to an informal, etc. …”
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Is Jamie Oliver “Easy Peasy” in Slovene? by Metka Lovrin

“…Within these layers, I focus on specific analysis of expressions under the influence of word-formation, pop culture, gender specific language, onomatopoeia, phonetic symbolism, deliberate inaccuracy, comparison, informal and colloquial language, and creative instances such as “the icky factor”, “childish intimacy” and “the Peter-Pan-syndrome”. …”
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Social dimensions of the nasal prefix in Jakarta Indonesian by Ferdinan Okki Kurniawan

“…Less attention, however, has been given specifically to the socio-phonological variation of this verbal prefix in a more colloquial variety of Indonesian, as the casual everyday language spoken in Jakarta, i.e., Jakarta Indonesian, with the cognate prefix /N-/ or /ŋə-/. …”
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Dystrybucyjny model odmian społecznych języka by ALEKSANDER KIKLEWICZ

“…The author arranges the linguistic no- menclature, in particular he introduces two opposite categories: informal language/spe- ech as a functional style and ordinary/colloquial language/speech as one of sociolects. The author proposes his own classification of language variants, which leans on two criteria: subjective or functional proprieties of language variants. …”
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King Mihai and Bessarabia. A Forgotten Unforgettable Story by Amalia DRĂGULĂNESCU

“…Carrying out a difficult operation of translating the image of the king from real history, as much as it can be known to mankind from indirect sources, in an auroral illo tempore, from narrative to parable, from reality to fictionality, the book imposes itself through its free, sometimes colloquial style, in the good sense of the word.…”
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Wariantywność stylu tekstu w perspektywie edukacyjnej by Jolanta Nocoń

“…The diversity of style has turned out to be the most pronounced on the level of register, and the main reason behind the style variation among the texts was rooted in the clash between opposing stylistic systems (formality vs. informality) and the overlapping of several discourses: the school, internet and colloquial discourse. The pupils have shown much creativity, choosing one of the three strategies to cope with the paradoxes of style designed by the authors of the task. …”
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Od statystyki do metonimii. O tekstach literackich Janusza Korczaka by Krystyna Gąsiorek

“…It serves as the evidence that Korczak used simple, colloquial language in his novel, and frequently replaced sophisticated words with synonyms that were in agreement with the imagination and expressiveness of a child.…”
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Myśli papieża Franciszka skierowane do młodych by Włodzimierz Moch

“…It consists in alternating the use of different varieties of language (model, colloquial, biblical style, written and spoken ) and genres of expression, such as the apostolic exhortation, message, letter, Gospel parable, in order to properly motivate the recipient.By combining the sacred and the profane in the area of language, Francis communicates to young people an axiological system adapted to their perception. …”
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Lexique d’origine tsigane / rrom dans les sociolectes bulgares by Gueorgui L. Armianov

“…In this process, after a period of extensive use, a word or an expression of Roma origin can lose its specific exotic character and disappear from the slang discourse or, on the contrary, can cross sociolectal borders and become an essential part of colloquial or informal speech and thus cease being perceived as slang. …”
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Walking into the cyborg gym. Two conceptions of the cyborg athlete by Francisco Javier Lopez Frías

“…To do so, I will first analyze the colloquial notion of the cyborg (Section 1). Then, I will differentiate between transhuman cyborgs, which are enhanced human beings who keep their defining human characteristics intact from the impact of technology, from posthuman cyborgs, which are beings whose involvement with technology blurs the line between what is human and what is not (Section 2). …”
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Encountering the Goddess in the Indian Himalaya: On the Contribution of Ethnographic Film to the Study of Religion by Arik Moran

“…It argues that the exploration of gaps between colloquial descriptions of divinities and their practical manifestation in ritual is instructive of the way religious categories are conceptualized. …”
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Interethnic variation in Singlish by Lee, Lynne Ching

“…This research project looked at how Singapore Colloquial English varied in conversations between Singaporeans of different ethnicities. …”
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Ghosts of our past : a study of ghost stories in the remembering of the Sook Ching massacre in Singapore by Haridas, Hemant Kumar

“…Thus, this led to the rise of colloquial histories in the form of ghost stories which highlight the plight of the victims as tragic specters.…”
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Revisiting Parsons: a wartime map classification system in the Digital Age by Davis, M

“…The Manual of Map Classification and Cataloguing, known colloquially as the ‘Parsons’ classification, is a geographic-based scheme for structuring a map collection using a sequence of alphanumeric classes and subdivisions. …”

Nashe and satire by Stern, T

“…Nashe adapted the egocentric prose of Pietro Aretino and the vigorous colloquial language of Puritan writers to his idiosyncratic style, with which he parodied almost every contemporary genre of prose, poetry, and drama. …”