Routledge Dictionary of Language and Linguistics
1 As ‘everyday language,’ colloquial speech refers to the total set of utterances in a familiar, informal context such as at home or at the workplace.
2 Product of panregional leveling between social and regional spoken language variants.
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dialect, spoken language
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