10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COLLOQUIALITY»
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colloquiality in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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1
Garner on Language and Writing
Many people, however, misunderstand the meaning of colloquiality. The term is
not a label for substandard usages; rather, it means "a conversational style." The
best legal minds, such as Learned Hand, tend to look kindly upon colloquiality: ...
2
Phrasal Verbs: The English Verb-Particle Construction and ...
Strang (1970: 276) notes that there is a stylistic restriction on the use of the
phrasal verbs even now: 'The verb-particle combinations seem always to have
had the air of colloquiality that still often clings to them'. (Horobin & Smith 2002:
75) The ...
3
Garner's Dictionary of Legal Usage
Colloquiality, within the bounds of modesty and naturalness, is to be encouraged
in legal writing as a counterbalance to the frequent use of rigid and pompous
formalities. But many people misunderstand the meaning of colloquiality. The
term ...
4
Advances in Cognitive Sociolinguistics
... drift towards less colloquiality ('de-colloquialization') as well as modest
Americanization; – British press editorials (LOB-B → F-LOB-B) attest a
considerable drift towards more colloquiality ('colloquialization') as well as
modest shift away from ...
Dirk Geeraerts, Gitte Kristiansen, Yves Peirsman, 2010
5
The Mind's Landscape: William Bronk and Twentieth-century ...
Grogan notes, rather astutely, that Not enough has been said about [this]
colloquiality, the impression he gives of ordinary, casual, often humorous or
mischievous address to a fellow speaker." Further, Grogan argues, Bronk's
colloquiality ...
6
The "winter Mind": William Bronk and American Letters
His is a "colloquiality"; many of his poems possess a veneer of "ordinary, casual,
often humorous or mischievous address to a fellow-speaker. ''28 This
colloquiality may comprehend the ambiguously lyrical "I" as well as the personal "
you" and ...
7
Dictionary of Modern Colloquial French
Itiscertainly necessary inlanguage comprehension that the listener/reader, before
attempting to become a speaker, should beable to weigh up the colloquiality of a
word or expression through its contextualizations in both languages.
E A Lovatt Esq, R. J. H 'erail, E. A. Lovatt, 2005
8
An Introduction to Gaelic Fiction
In particular, the first few turns in each conversation, and then the utterances at
the opening and, sometimes, closing of a turn, give the impression of a level of
colloquiality that might reflect what MacLeod was hearing spoken in the Gaelic ...
9
Grimm Language: Grammar, Gender and Genuineness in the Fairy ...
6.3 Verbs and colloquiality In both of the phenomena I have looked at in this
chapter, we find the Grimms making decisions in favor of more colloquial rather
than more learned construction possibilities. Although the language then had,
and still ...
10
Translating Women in Early Modern England: Gender in the ...
Harington's serious 'O' so himselfe were sleeping then or waking, / Or if his
troubled brayne, were in due taking' (CXXVII, 7-8) lacks the colloquiality of the
other two versions and cannot match Tofte's striking lines. Similarly, the earlier
translator ...
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «COLLOQUIALITY»
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BOC Redux: A Return to Grover's Corners
... coloratura negotiated Rorem's labyrinthine line with ease and even offered a casual colloquiality that lent the role a sense of gentility. «The Boston Musical Intelligencer, Jun 15»
