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LANGUAGE STUDIES COLLOQUIALISM 

Nargiz ISMAILOVA 

Qafqaz University  

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Language plays an important and irreplaceable role in modern world. People speak in different languages, this speech 

doesn't stop and while people speak the language, its shades and tones change. Day by day conversation increases and by 

this interest of people also grows. In speech people try to speak simply and understandably and as a result of it, they fall 

back on colloquialism.  

Colloquialism is one of the types of national language. It continues to amaze linguists. It is the language, which is used 

in everyday speech and appropriate for casual, simple written or spoken converse. It is the phrase, word, expression which is 

far from literature language and its norms.  In other words, colloquialism is "informal language" used by world. The term 

"colloquial" was coined by Dmitry Ushakov, meaning "half educated and uneducated urban population speech, who is not 

in possession of literary norms". Colloquialism is implemented in oral speech; but at the same time it can be reflected in 

fictions. (Sample: Novel The Grapes of Wrath:"There ain't room enough for you an' me...for rich and poor together all in 

one country...") 

Native speakers of colloquial language are people from old, young and middle generation with poor education and 

culture level. This language shows the dramatic difference between people with literary language and colloquialism 

language. There is a sharp boundary between these people. The native speakers of colloquial don't follow the grammatical 

rules; they just speak in a way they want. People with colloquial language often drawl, talking on the phone they talk 

loudly, make rude jokes. These people often shorten the sentences like instead of "do you want" they say "ya wanna" and 

others like "with you"-"wicha", "what do you want"-"watcha want", "going to"-"gonna", "I don't know"-"dunno", "how are 

you"-"hawaiya" and others. 

People often are puzzled by difference between colloquial, slang, jargon and dialect. The most confusing are colloquial 

and slang. As a reason for it, they are both informal, and are both spoken forms of the language. Colloquial words and 

phrases are commonly known and used by citizens, and this language is a standard language. Jargons and colloquial words 

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