From gaspaža to kundze: female honorifics in Latvian in the 16th–19th centuries by Pēteris Vanags

“…In turn, lexemes gaspaža and madama have become characteristic of colloquial language and fiction; they often have an ironic or negative connotation. …”
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“It’s Like Hawai’i”: Making a Tourist Utopia in Jeju Island, 1963-1985 by Tommy Tran

“…In this paper, I discuss the specter of ‘Hawai’i’ in Jeju tourism development and address the discrepancy between official development planning strategies and colloquial references to Hawai’i, observing that reference to ‘Hawai’i’ was not from initial design but followed the late 1950s to 1960s zeitgeist in which tourism itself became a mark of distinction for modernity.…”
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Faire de l'original à tout prix by Jean-François Sablayrolles

“…These can have a musical dimension, playing on the rules of pronunciation – rules on pronouncing the final -e are regularly flouted, using highly colloquial pronunciation, noted by the spelling, quite out of place in a poetic text. …”
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The Role of Metaphors in Code-switching: A Qualitative Analysis of Italian-Arabic Bilingual Speakers by Greta Mazzaggio, Yasmina Moussaid

“…Qualitative methods were employed, including interviews with Arabic-Italian bilinguals and a corpus of colloquial language. Our analysis focuses on identifying and analysing code-switching involving metaphorical expressions from both the perspectives of code-switching and metaphor. …”
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Análisis léxico de los Cuentos Inverosímiles de José López Rubio: entre lo real y lo inverosímil by Carola Sbriziolo

“…After examining the neologisms, the borrowings and the colloquial language used by the author, one can affirm that in the work there is an intentional contrast between the inverosímiles contents and the way the author represents them, fluctuating between real and unreal expression. …”
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Phrasal verbs with particle 'off' and their equivalents in Serbian language by Dančetović Nikola N.

“…In most cases, the use of a phrasal verb is less formal, more colloquial and more emotionally colored than a word that replaces it. …”
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Network Folklore and its Role in the Formation of a Collective Cognitive Space by Anastasija Belovodskaja

“…At the same time, the very nature of anonymous network creative writing—amusing and colloquial—raises the attractiveness of such texts and facilitates their reception, allowing them to be used for manipulative aims. …”
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Linguocultural Specificity of Categorization and Stereotyping of Color in Languages with Different Structures by E.V. Maremukova

“…The material of languages with different structures (including oral colloquial speech, idiomatic expressions, written sources and lexicographic publications) was analyzed comparatively. …”
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On the translation of Plato’s Protagoras by María Luisa Acuña by MARCELA CORIA

“…This can be seen, for example, in the agile rhythm of the first scenes in the prologue (which has a noticeable colloquial style, almost funny at times), in lexical choices, in the translator’s deep knowledge of Plato’s technical vocabulary and thought and in the erudition that the notes show. …”
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Structural Study and Evaluation of Previous Restoration Work of Mohammad 'Ali Pasha Mosque at the Citadel in Cairo by dr.Yaser Yehya Amin Abdel-Aty

“…It has become the symbol of the Citadel, to the point that its name is given to the whole complex in the colloquial Egyptian parlance. This paper studies analytically the static and dynamic structural behavior of this great mosque using computer numerical modeling techniques, to reach the main reasons for past cracking and failures in its domed-roof and other structural elements, which occurred by the end of 19th Century. …”
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Newspaper-Style Expressivization and Dialogization Trends (News Block of English-Language Newspapers) by E. A. Nikonova

“…According to the presented research results, these tendencies are realized in newspaper-style texts through the use of colloquial vocabulary, repetition, quotation and question in the narrative (or rhetorical question), word play. …”
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Da li, je li and li – normative state and distribution by Luka Vukojević, Lana Hudeček

“…The normative status of the group je li is determined, i.e. it is shown that it is either obsolete in Croatian or it belongs to colloquial style. They also challenge the rules according to which the normative status of the group da li in a direct question is different from its status in indirect questions and according to which the group da li in the standard language appears in expressing confirmation and in alternative questions. …”
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Identification and mapping of major-effect flowering time loci Autoflower1 and Early1 in Cannabis sativa L. by Jacob A. Toth, George M. Stack, Craig H. Carlson, Lawrence B. Smart

“…Further, some C. sativa are photoperiod insensitive, colloquially referred to as “autoflowering.” This trait has anecdotally been described as a simple recessive trait with major impacts on phenology and yield. …”
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“Big Bang o Altro” by Stefano Maria Casella

“…His style,  linguistic register and lexicon are deliberately lower; the tone more colloquial and ordinary, ironic, irreverent, debunking, and light-hearted (unlike the higher seriousness of his first three collections Ossi-Occasioni-Bufera). …”
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Improving Abstractive Dialogue Summarization Using Keyword Extraction by Chongjae Yoo, Hwanhee Lee

“…In abstractive dialogue summarization systems, capturing the subject in the dialogue is challenging owing to the properties of colloquial texts. Moreover, the system often generates uninformative summaries. …”
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Sprechakte in der Kommunikation in Kinderwunschforen by Hanna Stypa

“…In addition to neutral expressions, colloquial expressions, and professional medical vocabulary are used in the posts. …”
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Google Translate – prijatelj ali sovražnik v očeh govorcev sorodnih slovanskih jezikov? by Mojca Stritar Kučuk

“…They translate single words and phrases more frequently than longer sections or whole texts and point out problems such as poor translation of colloquial expressions and the need for post-editing of machine translations. …”
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THOUGHT PATTERNS REFLECTED IN THE LINGUISTIC FEATURES IN INDONESIAN AND ENGLISH LETTERS WRITTEN BY INDONESIANS by Eddy Subandrijo, Susilo Susilo

“…The diction shows that for the English letters, in addition to using the colloquial lexemes, two kinds of lexemes are found: (a) jargon, and (b) attitudinal. …”
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Diaglossia and Educational Development by Zoubida Sebane

“…The former is the high variety that is considered as a formal language and functions as the official statanrd language in all Arab countirs and the latter is a low variey and can be considered as colloquial Arabic. Fusha can be seen as the modern descendant of Classical Arabic which is mainly used for writing in formal discourse in the Arab world and is learned through formal education. …”
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Role of Singlish in the work of foreign healthcare professionals by Chao, Jasmine Shun Xian

“…This paper explores the attitudes and behaviours that foreign healthcare professionals have towards Singapore Colloquial English or ‘Singlish’ in their work, in relation to the significance of Singlish in cultural adaptation. …”
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