Downstairs by Muhammad Helmi Ali., Tan, Lydia Di Ya., Tan, Peng Koon., Quek, Hui Min.

“…A colloquial and affectionate term used by many when referring to the areas below their public housing blocks, “downstairs” is also the apt title for this Singaporean documentary. …”
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Singapore English, language mixing, and vernacular speech by Bolton, Kingsley, Botha, Werner

“…Today, there is a small library of research on Singapore English, from multiple perspectives, not least with reference to the spread and features of the colloquial variety of the language known as ‘Singlish’. …”
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Singlish particles and politeness work in face-threatening speech acts by Lai, Yun-Sxin, Tan, Ying Ying

“…Having been thought to be ‘crass’, ‘uneducated’ and ‘unintelligent’, Singlish, also commonly known as Singapore Colloquial English, is perceived to be an impolite language. …”
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An instrumental analysis of Sharchhop obstruents by Fulop, Sean A., Dobrovolsky, Michael

“…This report concerns itself with one language, colloquially known as Sharchhop, on which no instrumental phonetic investigation has been conducted in the past. …”
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The antioxidant activities, cytotoxic properties, and identification of water-soluble compounds of Ficus deltoidea leaves by Abrahim, Noor Nazirahanie, Abdul-Rahman, Puteri Shafinaz, Aminudin, Norhaniza

“…Leaves from three varieties of Ficus deltoidea, colloquially termed small-(FDS), medium-(FDM), and big-type leaf (FDB), were subjected to water extraction. …”

Obrazowość jako cecha stylistyczna szesnastowiecznego pamfletu politycznego Uwagi o Acrostichis własnego wyobrażenia Kniaża Wielkiego Moskiewskiego Walentego Neothebela by Artur Rejter

“…In general distinguished devices are not imaginative or exquisite, frequently being allied to simple, even colloquial language. In that the analyzed text is clearly vivid and evocative. …”
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The editor dilemma in modern language instruction: Is tutoring out of control? by Maite Correa

“…Still, and even if it seems obvious, it is not uncommon for language instructors to come across assignments that contain advanced linguistic forms or colloquialisms that do not belong to the linguistic repertoire of the student who wrote it (Correa, 2011). …”
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Exploring cultural conceptualisations in two online Singlish dictionaries by Martina Guzzetti

“…The purpose of this paper is to investigate these notions by considering Singlish, the colloquial variety of Singapore English. Here, the adoption of English words has contributed to the creation of a localised variety, though this hybridisation is often seen as a corruption. …”
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Vernacular Language and the Wu Dialect in the Formation of a Chan Koine and the Rise of Chan/Zen Philology: The Seventh to Seventeenth Centuries by John Alexander Jorgensen

“…They needed to deal with at least four registers; the language of the street in their district, the Chan koine with its colloquialisms and argot, the <i>guanhua</i> or official language, and the elite formal language in Literary Sinitic that was packed with allusions. …”
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El registro lingüístico especial de los documentos notariales medievales by María del Pilar Álvarez Maurín

“…Moreover the writer agrees to Wright's the ory that it is not necessary to postulate the existence of a «leonese vulgar Latin», but differs from him in the sense that she considers that the notarial language was a special form whose purposes trascended the mere transcription of the colloquial Romance. To support her hypothesis she analyzes some legal documents from the IX to the XII centuries. …”
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Code-Copying in the Balochi Language of Sistan by Lutz Rzehak

“…The study is based upon audio recordings of colloquial Balochi speech made by the author in Sistan during the last six years.…”
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Portuguese as Heritage Language in Germany—A Linguistic Perspective by Esther Rinke, Cristina Flores

“…Based on the results of previous research, we show that the following factors shape the linguistic knowledge of this group of bilinguals: (1) Restricted exposure to the heritage language may cause a delay in the development of certain linguistic structures, (2) deviations from the standard norm may be related to the lack of formal education and the primacy of the colloquial register and (3) heritage bilinguals may accelerate ongoing diachronic development. …”
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An Experimental Analysis on Degree Adverb “Hen” of Yuanjiang Dialect Xiang Chinese by Fen Zhang, Qi Gong

“…Such phonetic phenomenon of ‘‘hen” in YJD is neither literal and colloquial readings nor tone sandhi, but a polyphonic phenomenon caused by internal inflexion.…”
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New Technologies and Old Treaties by Bryant Walker Smith

“…These requirements, explicit in two important conventions on road traffic, have an uncertain relationship to the automated motor vehicles that are currently under development—often colloquially called “self-driving” or “driverless.” The immediate legal and policy questions are straightforward: Are these requirements consistent with automated driving and, if not, how should the inconsistency be resolved? …”
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Paremiology Peter’s Era as Historical Source by V. M. Mokienko

“…Simoni is proved, proverbs and sayings from which reflect many details of the life of this period and capture the history of Russian colloquial and dialectal speech. Examples of this kind are subjected to linguistic and cultural analysis in the article.…”
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Polyglossie und Mehrsprachigkeit in Algerien: Eine Herausforderung für die Zielsprache Deutsch by Aoussine Seddiki

“…The following languages are mostly used: Algerian, colloquial Arabic, various Berber languages, and French. …”
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Vocabulary of Emotions in Hagiographies for Children: Functional Aspect by Evgeniya Dmitrieva

“…The consideration of functional and stylistic originality of lexemes, their heterogeneity, mixing of bookish and colloquial words has enabled the author to trace transformation processes in hagiographic genre, which are characteristic of modern hagiographic texts.…”
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Meet MIRAT Legal Reasoning Fragmented Into Learnable Chunks by John H Wade

“…Certainly it is a deviant style as most lawyers tend to stand our so quickly in a meeting (and not only due to their confidence, motor vehicles and dress patterns). In colloquial terms lawyers’ contributions to any discussion tend to be exact, argumentative, insightful, reserved, balanced, evasive, obscurantist, precise and uncommitted. 4 Can the learning process at law school towards these much admired, sometimes despised qualities, be demystified? …”
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Jak frazeologizmy funkcjonują w różnych wariantach i kontekstach? Funkcjonalna analiza materiału historycznojęzykowego na podstawie jednostki jak Boga kocham by Aleksandra Ryś

“…The Functional Analysis of Historica-Linguistic Material Based on the Unit: jak Boga kocham The paper presents a functional approach to phraseology from former colloquial Polish speech based on the lexicalized unit jak Boga kocham and its selected variant forms. …”
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La Fedra di Seneca-Sanguineti: rilettura di una traduzione per la messinscena by Sara Bandiera

“…Therefore Sanguineti creates a new style of translation, that he calls «oracolese»: its idiosyncratic syntax (caused by reproduction of ordo verborum), assonances and alliterations, alienating commixture between high literal tradition and colloquial Italian grammar are strictly related to the mise-en-scene. …”
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