Obamacare: A bibliometric perspective by Alvaro Carrasco-Aguilar, José Javier Galán, Ramón Alberto Carrasco

“…Obamacare is the colloquial name given to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) signed into law by President Obama in the USA, which ultimately aims to provide universal access to health care services for US citizens. …”
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Innovazione della scuola e partecipazione dei genitori: ruoli e relazioni possibili by Valentina Toci Toci, Sara Mori, Francesca Rossi

“…Le scuole raccolgono dei buoni punteggi per quanto riguarda l’offerta formativa e gli aspetti gestionali; nonostante ciò, si delinea una partecipazione genitoriale prevalentemente incentrata sui colloqui previsti per l’andamento dei figli.  …”
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Disseminated BCG sepsis following intravesical therapy for Bladder Carcinoma: A case report and review of literature by Oreoluwa Oladiran, Ifeanyi Nwosu, Adeolu Oladunjoye, Olubunmi Oladunjoye

“…Although generally well tolerated, 1/15,000 patients can develop life-threatening disseminated-BCG-infection typically soon after the procedure, a condition colloquially termed BCG-osis. Side-effects of intravesical BCG instillation including fever, chills, fatigue are common but BCG-osis is rare and severe, oftentimes requiring intensive care unit admission and triple anti-TB-therapy as in this case. …”
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SYNTACTIC CLASSIFICATION OF PLEONASTIC STRUCTURES by Liudmila PARAHONCO

“…These constructions are usually found in colloquial and publicistic styles, which does not allow them to be attributed to the norm of the modern Russian literary language. …”
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Research on Joint Extraction Model of Financial Product Opinion and Entities Based on RoBERTa by Jiang Liao, Hanxiao Shi

“…Due to the difficulty of extracting comment text compared with structured data itself, coupled with the fact that it is too colloquial, the traditional model insufficiently semantically represents sentences, resulting in unsatisfactory extraction results. …”
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Dacă nu mai există limitări de gen în arealul profesional, de ce ar mai exista ele în limbă? / If there are no gender limitations in the professional realm, why would they persist... by Felix Nicolau

“…The historical evolution of languages has been more than once influenced by the sheer influence of scholars who re-channeled some linguistic phenomena or simply consecrated aspects of colloquial usage. This happened in the history of Romanian language when the Latinist scholars cleansed the lexicon and parts of morphology of various non-Latin borrowings and derivations whereas they revived or inserted Latin formations. …”
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Research Priorities for Robust and Beneficial Artificial Intelligence by Russell, Stuart, Tegmark, Max Erik, Dewey, Dan

“…In this context, the criterion for intelligence is related to statistical and economic notions of rationality — colloquially, the ability to make good decisions, plans, or inferences. …”
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Event discovery in social media feeds by Benson, Edward Oscar, Haghighi, Aria, Barzilay, Regina

“…Unlike typical extraction setups, these environments are characterized by short, one sentence messages with heavily colloquial speech. To further complicate matters, individual messages may not express the full relation to be uncovered, as is often assumed in extraction tasks. …”
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Review of "A Naxi-Chinese-English dictionary/纳西汉英词典" by Michaud, Alexis

“…This major gap in the field of Sino-Tibetan linguistics was filled by two remarkable publications in quick succession: A Dictionary of Colloquial Naxi (《纳西语常用词汇》) by He Jiren, edited by Zhao Qinglian et al. (2011), and A Naxi-Chinese-English Dictionary by Thomas Pinson. …”
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Aspects of the verbal system of Malaysian english and other englishes by Peter, Collins, Yao, Xinyue

“…The findings suggest that ME is exonormatively oriented toward the current global English superpower, AmE, and that there is a continuing reluctance to accept colloquial grammatical features in more formal registers of ME.…”
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Components and Elements of Aircraft & Marine Propulsion / by Sasser, Maryam, author 648298

“…A propeller is oft colloquially known as screw both in aviation and maritime. …”
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INSEGNAMENTO DEL LESSICO L1 TRAMITE MOODLE by Mirko Tavosanis

“…“the technical vocabulary and idiomatic expressions peculiar to the [...] field of specialisation”) and “idiomatic and colloquial expressions”. In the case of L2/LS learners, mastery of the vocabulary relating to the specialist field is acquired earlier (B1) than that relating to idiomatic and colloquial expressions (B2); in the case of L1 learners, the order of acquisition is probably reversed. …”
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Functions and Translation of Palestinian Dialect in Ibrahim Nasrallah’s Time of White Horses by Bilal Hamamra, Ahmad Qabaha, Eithar Awwad

“…It is noticeable that Palestinian authors use colloquial language in dialogues and special expressions, striving to attain aesthetic and cultural merits or more realism in the text. …”
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EUFEMISME DAN DISFEMISME PADA WACANA LINGKUNGAN: SEBUAH KAJIAN EKOLINGUISTIK KRITIS DALAM MEDIA MASSA DI INDONESIA by , ELISA NURUL LAILI, , Prof. Dr. I Dewa Putu Wijana, S.U., M.A.

“…The types of euphemism used in environmental discourse of Indonesian mass media are at least 11 types, they are the usage of figurative expressions, remodeling, circumlocution, abbreviation, one for one substitution, synecdoche totem pro parte, hyperbole, understatement, the usage of technical terms (jargon), the usage of colloquial terms, and borrowing from other language. …”

Traktat Krzysztofa Kluka „Zwierząt domowych i dzikich, osobliwie krajowych, historii naturalnej początki i gospodarstwo” — oświeceniowy podręcznik zoologii by Jerzy Biniewicz

“…His lecture has two narrative planes: scientific and colloquial. In this article, the author proposes a methodology of text analysis. …”
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The effectiveness of using Thelin's model in the expressive performance of fifth grade female students by حيدر الشّويليّ

“…With regard to the first axis, which is the student, he suffers from weakness in the linguistic components, as we find that most students graduate in the preparatory stage and they do not have a sufficient collection of linguistic vocabulary that helps them express themselves in a satisfactory manner, which leads them to include in their competencies some colloquial expressions. (Ahmed, 1986, p. 12). The problem does not stop at the limits of the student or the teacher only, but it goes beyond them to the time allotted for the study of expression. …”
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Interjection et procédure interpellative en grammaire interactionnelle : de l’image de soi à l’« allogénèse » ? by Laurent Fauré

“…Our corpus makes a set of « colloquial » calling vocalizations uttered in public or in institutional situations ; it groups together taped-on and transcribed data, taken from various contexts : mediatized political meeting, working-activities, soccer training, tv or online programs showing off mediatic and cultural debate, or entertainment one’s.…”
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L’illusion charismatique. Mussolini dans les revues culturelles françaises de l’entre-deux-guerres by Jérémy Guedj

“…“The revolution of a planet can only be seen from another” said the famous writer and biographer Emil Ludwig, who conversed with Mussolini in the famous Colloqui. By this, he meant that geographical distance made it easier to understand a phenomenon. …”
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Odmiana medialna języka a ustne wypowiedzi uczniów by Anna Tabisz

“…An analysis of the material carried out at the cognitive, structural, and linguistic levels is then presented, which has made it possible to discern the presence of certain features of the media variety of language, including superficiality and fragmentation, definiteness, associativeness, and colloquiality. The paper is concluded with a statement that the changes that are taking place in the language (and therefore in the thinking) of the younger generation are becoming a challenge for educational didactics, which should provide contemporary schools with more effective models of language education, taking into account the current expansion of media literacy. …”
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The Key English Pronunciation Difficulties for Egyptian EFL Learners by Hasnaa Hasan Sultan Abdelreheem

“…This paper aims to investigate the key English pronunciation difficulties, both segmental (on the level of speech sounds) and suprasegmental (rhythm, stress, and juncture), of Egyptian learners of English, in a corpus of audio and/or video recordings of English conversation and presentation skills classes by Egyptian university students who are also native speakers of Egyptian Colloquial Arabic (ECA). The project involves both contrastive analysis (of the phonological systems of English, Egyptian Arabic and Modern Standard Arabic) as well as error analysis. …”
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