The contribution of ‘chitoumou’, the edible caterpillar Cirina butyrospermi, to the food security of smallholder farmers in southwestern Burkina Faso by Payne, CLR, Badolo, A, Cox, S, Sagnon, B, Dobermann, D, Milbank, C, Scarborough, P, Sanon, A, Bationo, F, Balmford, A

“…In this study we look at the contribution of the shea caterpillar Cirina butyrospermi, colloquially known as ‘chitoumou’, to the food security of smallholder households in rural southwestern Burkina Faso. …”

Climate targets as more than rhetoric: Accounting for Norway's Zero Growth Objective by Håvard Haarstad, Siddharth Sareen, Tarje Iversen Wanvik

“…Scholars have often taken a skeptical view of official climate discourses, including their ambitious targets, and instead turned their attention to experimentation, innovation and civic action – colloquially termed 'real action.' In this article we try on the opposite view. …”
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Communikemes with «evaluative» meaning: etymological aspect (based on the English language material) by V Y Melikyan, A V Melikyan

“…Communikemes are extremely active in the oral-colloquial communication form due to their anthropocentricity, expressivity and economy. …”
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Los conectores pragmáticos como índices de modalidad en español actual by Ángela Arce Castillo

“…This novel has been chosen due to the fact that it is mainly written in dialogue and the language used is colloquial.…”
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Active Processes in Modern Russian: Possibilities of Ecological and Linguistic Study by Elvira Akimova, Galina Bezkorovaynaya, Svetlana Ionova

“…There is a tendency in strengthening the subjective aspect of the text content in public communication that is marked by the shift towards evaluative-expressive-emotional colloquial speech style. The opposing trend is text intellectualization, it appeals to background knowledge of the reader, the use of abbreviated forms in information coding. …”
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Zaolziańska wspólnota w trosce o tożsamość językową i kulturową by Janina Labocha

“…The bond uniting the community was maintained by the Cieszyn dialect, i.e. colloquial speech which I call the Zaolzie dialect. …”
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The Arabic Language in Israel: official language, mother tongue, foreign language. Teaching, dissemination and competence by Letizia Lombezzi

“…All this proves the need to intentionally teach colloquial Arabic and assign to it priority for being ‘the language in use‘, which detains a strongest communicative power. …”
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Feast of fools : the carnivalesque in John Kennedy Toole's A confederacy of dunces by Julija Potrč

“…This difference was successfully transposed into Slovene by translator Nuša Rozman, who managed to capture the differences between social classes by using various degrees of colloquialisms and slang expressions, while opting to nevertheless transcribe the characters' speech in a way that is grammatically correct; a practice that has long been present in both original and translated Slovene literature, which highlights the fact that despite an increase in the number of works written in the vernacular over the past years, a universal standard on how to transcribe spoken Slovene has yet to be established.…”
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Multilingual and Multi-Generational Italian Identity in a Netflix Series: Subtitling Generazione 56k (2021) into English by Marina Manfredi, Chiara Bartolini

“…The focus is on key functions of telecinematic discourse, i.e., characterisation, realism, and humour, realised through the use of (a) multilingualism in the broadest sense, including geographical dialects, and (b) multi-generational language (colloquialisms, “unconventional language”, particularly, teenage and youth language, and taboo). …”
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Unofficial Monumentonyms: Towards the Definition of their Onomastic Status by Maria V. Akhmetova

“…Their usage cases in literary texts and colloquial speech do not always allow us to unambiguously qualify them as onomastic or folklore units. …”
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Metal Catalysis Acting on Nitriles in Early Earth Hydrothermal Systems by Miranda Sturtz, Christopher House

“…Polymerization, reduction, cyclization, and a phenomenon colloquially known as ‘chemical gardening’ (structure building via reprecipitation of metal compounds or complexing with organics) are all potential outcomes with the addition of metals and minerals. …”
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Challenges Facing Teaching Arabic Language in Elementary Schools in the Central West Bank, Palestine as Seen by Principals, Supervisors and Teachers by Linda Walid Smoom, Ahmad Fteiha

“…The results showed that the most prominent challenges of teaching and learning Arabic are the overlap between colloquial and standard Arabic, and the decline in the status of Arabic in scientific fields, As for the most prominent proposals, it was necessary to strengthen the role of parents and increase communication between them and the school, and to employ the Internet in the process of teaching and learning Arabic language, by designing websites and applications for Arabic language curricula. …”
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Characteristics of the Publicistic Style of Intonation in English and Latvian by Maija Brēde

“…The analysis reveals the basic distinctions of the publicistic style of intonation in English in contrast to Latvian which has a more emotional approach, considerably slower tempo, more frequent use of long pauses, absence of low/mid rises in the final tone units, a more frequent use of level tones in the non­final tone units, an occasional high rise in the non­final tone units that is characteristic of colloquial speech. The speakers slow down before the most important pieces of information. …”
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SPECIFICUL ORALITĂŢII DIN BASARABIA by Viorica MOLEA

“…</p><p><strong>THE CARACTERISTIC FEATURES OF COLLOQUIAL SPEECH IN BESSARABIA</strong></p><p>Different conditions of evolution determine the specific of language used in the Romanian space. …”
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“Talking like Men”: by Rumana Rahman

“…The female-subject speakers give commands which are meant to be executed; they narrate acts of violence, stories of victimization, and experience of motherhood. They adopt colloquial language and masculine expressions which make the subversion more effective. …”
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Don’t Rich People Difficult: Bilingual Puns on Indonesian Truck Graffiti by Norwanto Norwanto, Bahroni Bahroni

“…The analysis also showed EIPs and EJLPs are bilingual puns comprising colloquial languages of Indonesian people rewritten in English. …”
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Geographical and discursive variation of discourse-connective que in Spanish by Sofía Pérez Fernández, Pedro Gras, Frank Brisard

“…On the one hand, we show that DCQ is not only a spoken phenomenon but at the same time mainly restricted to colloquial language use. On the other hand, the results show that DCQ is more entrenched in the Peninsular variety than in the Latin-American varieties (Mexico shows the lowest overall frequency). …”
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Practice of Identifying the Value Information from Spoken Dialogue by T. V. Matveyeva

“…It is indicated that the specific purpose of the author is the introduction of the proposed technology in the practice of value-oriented analysis of colloquial speech. The article is based on the original speech material of everyday family interaction. …”
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Intercomparison of Remote Sensing Retrievals: An Examination of Prior-Induced Biases in Averaging Kernel Corrections by Hai Nguyen, Jonathan Hobbs

“…In these cases, the two different retrievals are compared using an adjustment that is colloquially known as the averaging kernel correction. …”
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Laterals in English,Arabic and Kurdish by Ameen H. Al-Bamerni

“…The results showed that 52 % of the Kurds regularly used the clear variety where the 'dark' variety should have been used while only 40% substituted a non-syllabi c allophone for the syllabic one .On the other hand 43 % of the Arabs used a 'clear' variety instead of the 'dark' one and 75% used the non-syllabic variety instead of the syllabic .Surprisingly no student substituted a dark variety for the "clear' one except before the diphthpong/ al /, though both varieties do exist in Arabic (classical and colloquial) and in Kurdish.…”
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