Drinking Establishments in the Novel Crime and Punishment. An Artistic Detail in the Legal Field of the Drinking Reform of 1861 by Olga A. Dekhanova

“…One of the features of the novel is Dostoevsky’s use of the lexeme “raspivochnaia” as an everyday colloquial name for a drinking house, carrying a pronounced emotional reaction of social rejection. …”
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Exploring Naturalistic Qualities in War Poetry: Language and its Use in English and Persian Literature, with a Focus on the Select Poetry of Qeysar Aminpour and Wilfred Owen by Moslem Zolfagharkhani, Mahdi Rahimi, Ahmad Khajehim

“…The major qualities examined in this article are as follows: the descriptive details of war and its circumstances; the use of simple and colloquial language; cacophony, and harsh and tough language; and the picture of war’s indecencies, ugliness, and terrors. …”
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Using GPT-3 to Build a Lexicon of Drugs of Abuse Synonyms for Social Media Pharmacovigilance by Kristy A. Carpenter, Russ B. Altman

“…We repeated this process for 98 drugs of abuse, of which 22 are widely-discussed drugs of abuse, building a lexicon of colloquial drug synonyms that can be used for pharmacovigilance on social media.…”
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"Pamiętnik dla dzieci" Heleny Masalskiej – świadectwo polszczyzny łotewskiej XX wieku by Małgorzata Ostrówka, Ewa Golachowska, Liene Lieģeniece

“… Pamiętnik dla dzieci [A Memoir for Children] by Helena Masalska: A Testimony of Twentieth-Century Latvian Polish This article presents Pamiętnik dla dzieci [A Memoir for Children] by Helena Masalska, a text which may not be very long but is certainly important for scholars documenting the Latvian variety of twentieth-century Polish. Written in a colloquial variety of the language in 1992, the memoir tells about the childhood and the youth of the author, born in 1917. …”
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Diachronic and Dialect Variation of English Intensifying Adverbs in the Film Dialogue Discourse: Corpus-Based Study by Larisa Kochetova, Elena Ilyinova

“…In the 1990–2010s period, the process of renewal is observed in the UK and US film discourse when formerly frequent intensifiers are seen to be replaced by informal adverbs with a maximal degree of emotionality in speakers' attitudes to situations, objects of the surrounding world and the interlocutor, which reflects a trend in preference towards the colloquial and substandard stylistic register. The growth of substandard vocabulary indicates that this trend is in line with the expectations of the English-speaking discursive communities that perceive film discourse as a reflection of authentic face-to-face discursive practices.…”
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Nationwide public perceptions regarding the acceptance of using wastewater for community health monitoring in the United States by A. Scott LaJoie, Rochelle H. Holm, Lauren B. Anderson, Heather D. Ness, Ted Smith

“…To assess the levels of infection across communities during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, researchers have measured severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 RNA in feces dissolved in sewer water. This activity is colloquially known as sewer monitoring and is referred to as wastewater-based epidemiology in academic settings. …”
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Funkcja frazeologizmów w wybranych poznańskich powieściach kryminalnych by Marta Nowak

“…Standard Polish phraseologisms make the characters’ speech more colloquial, natural and expressive and are used to convey their emotions. …”
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Short-tailed mice with a long fossil record: the genus Leggadina (Rodentia: Muridae) from the Quaternary of Queensland, Australia by Jonathan Cramb, Gilbert J. Price, Scott A. Hocknull

“…The genus Leggadina (colloquially known as ‘short-tailed mice’) is a common component of Quaternary faunas of northeastern Australia. …”
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Preliminary Multiphysics Modeling of Electric High-Voltage Cable of Offshore Wind-Farms by Fouad Ech-Cheikh, Abdelghani Matine, Monssef Drissi-Habti

“…All of these simulations will be carried out on one phase of a 36 kV 120 mm² copper submarine cable. Colloquially these are called “copper cables”, meaning cables with Cu conductors (120 mm² is the smallest conductor cross-section for array cables, which are usually 3-phase cables).…”
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Systematic Mistake and Its Linguistic Background

“…These nouns have a colloquial variant with an ending -нье. This short variant in many cases is not fixed in dictionaries and is explained as a result of reduction of the post-stressed vowel [и]. …”
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Development of an Ingestible Fluid Wicking Gastric Electrical Stimulation Platform for Hormone Modulation by McRae, James

“…Dysregulation of the gut-brain axis affects hundreds of millions of people annually, often resulting in motility, autoimmune, mood, and neurological disorders. Colloquially referred to as an “electroceutical,” electrical stimulation of the GI tract for modulation of this axis has been explored as a potential therapeutic for GI motility disorders. …”
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Reply to Benedict's comment in regard to my Sino-Tibetan vulva by Bauer, Robert S.

“…It comes as no surprise to me that no Chinese characters are associated etymologically with these Keijia and Min morphemes. Within the colloquial vocabulary of Chinese dialects there are many items from the basic vocabulary which cannot be written with Chinese characters. …”
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Home swee home. by Lim, Jeremy Wei Zhong., Low, Priscilla Yong Qin., Tong, Sian Choo.

“…The title refers to the significance of Singapore as our home and highlights the relationship between our identity and the spaces we live in. Swee is a colloquial term for something beautiful and expresses our collective desire to live in a fine city.…”
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KAJIAN STILISTIKA SASTRA SULUK PEDALANGAN KI SENO NUGROHO LAKON S�TA GUGUR by , BRIAN RIANGGA DHITA, , Dr. Wisma Nugraha Christianto, Rich, M.Hum.

“…The language on the suluk pedalangan dissimilar to colloquial language, because most use old Javanese language. …”

Graffiti scrawls and hiphop calls: coming to grips with non-traditional sources for historical lexicography by Zimmer, B

“…Citational evidence for slang and other varieties of colloquial English occasionally strains the traditional acceptability requirements of historical dictionaries. …”

Multiword units and synonymy: interface between collocations, colligations, and semantic prosody by Supakorn Phoocharoensil

“…Interestingly, both target synonyms are not characteristic of colloquial English as their frequencies in speaking, fiction, and TV and movie subtitles are relatively low. …”
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The Thai translation of un violador en tu camino : a multimodal critical discourse analysis by Jooyin Saejang

“…The results show that while both versions similarly highlight the structural cause of gender-based violence, the Chilean lyrics place greater focus on feminist theoretical pedagogy in contrast to the Thai translation’s function as an affective vehicle for anger as exemplified by the adoption of a more colloquial term for “patriarchy”, the choice of specific pronouns to challenge Thai seniority culture, and the emotionally charged modifications to the original choreography. …”
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Environmental Enrichment Factors Associated with the Activity Level of Bottlenose Dolphins under Professional Care by Lisa K. Lauderdale, Kenneth Alex Shorter, Ding Zhang, Joaquin Gabaldon, Jill D. Mellen, Douglas A. Granger, Michael T. Walsh, Lance J. Miller

“…In the present study, a subset of data from a larger study entitled “Towards understanding the welfare of cetaceans in zoos and aquariums” (colloquially called the Cetacean Welfare Study) was used to examine the relationship between activity level and enrichment buoyancy as well as enrichment provisioning schedules. …”
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Beliefs and Experiences of Individuals Following a Zero-Carb Diet by Cleo Protogerou, Frédéric Leroy, Martin S. Hagger

“…The present study investigated the beliefs and experiences of individuals following a diet that severely limits, or entirely excludes, dietary carbohydrates, colloquially known as a ‘zero-carb’ diet, for at least 6 months. …”
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Earworms in the Amusic Mind? Questionnaire Investigation in Congenital Amusia by Barbara Tillmann, Lesly Fornoni, Agathe Pralus, Caliani Hoarau, Philippe Albouy, Anne Caclin

“…Involuntary musical imagery, colloquially known as “earworms”, is a phenomenon hypothesized to reflect involuntary rehearsal of long-term memory representations. …”
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