Thesaurus entry: colloquial

Encyclopedia entry: COLLOQUIAL
Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language;      263 words ...COLLOQUIAL. A semi-technical term for the VERNACULAR form of a language ( colloquial Arabic ) or, sometimes mildly pejorative, for informal, everyday speech, including SLANG ( colloquial usage ).

Article: Performing the Word: African American Poetry as Vernacular ...
African American Review;  September 22, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... African American Poetry as Vernacular Culture is compact, timely ... demonstrate that our poetic vernacular "is not merely colloquial, slang, or vulgar. It is ... poetry in African American vernacular culture." A wonderful chapter ...

Thesaurus entry: vernacular
The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English;      214 words ...vernacular • noun   synonyms : everyday/spoken language, colloquial/native speech, conversational language, common parlance, nonstandard language, jargon, cant, patois; inf. lingo, patter.

Article: Colloquial vocabulary and politeness in French.
The Modern Language Review;  April 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... particularly strong: changing fashions in colloquial vocabulary (conventionally labelled ... little way into the functioning of French colloquial vocabulary, with the help of tools ... arbitrary definition of what is meant by 'colloquial vocabulary' in French: these are words ...

Article: Patterns and variation of address terms in colloquial ...
Australian Review of Applied Linguistics;  December 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Colloquial Indonesian has two pronouns for addressing ... is to describe patterns of address in colloquial Indonesian through an examination of ... elo, and lo) is a term from the colloquial variety of Indonesian spoken in Jakarta ...

Article: Colloquial Ukrainian. A Complete Language Course
Canadian Slavonic Papers;  September 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ...Ian Press and Stefan Pugh. Colloquial Ukrainian. A Complete Language ... the efforts of the authors of Colloquial Ukrainian should be highly commended ... grammatical points, and exercises. Colloquial Ukrainian is accompanied by two ...

Article: Colloquial Danish.
Scandinavian Studies;  December 22, 1994 ;     700+ words ... ... Danish-language texts available today, Colloquial Danish was written specifically with ... competence in Danish without an instructor. Colloquial Danish contains twenty "lessons ... supplement the material presented in Colloquial Danish extremely well. Telling time ...