Peculiarities of the Colloquial Style in Modern English

In many styles of written speech, non-union acts as a stylistic device, as, for example, in the styles of artistic speech, especially in poetic speech.Thus, the usual conversational style is implemented in English using various lexical, grammatical and syntactic means. At the lexical level, this style is characterized by the use of jargon, barbarity, vernacular, obscene words, reinforcing particles and other linguistic units.Among the grammatical means are abbreviations of grammatical forms, language compression. Elliptical constructions and non-union communication are used as syntactic means. The used linguistic means perform certain stylistic functions: emotive and evaluative functions, the implementation of expressiveness.Informal (spoken, colloquial) language is the language of private conversation. This is the first type of language a native speaker child learns. Nowadays, public communications are popular, such as advertisements, newspapers, or the lecturing style, sometimes called the coffee conversation style, uses the conversational style.In English there are many differences of vocabulary between formal and colloquial language. Colloquial language is characterized by a number of peculiarities: colloquial- isms, clipped words, slang, emotionally coloured words, words of general meaning (office, business), verbs with postpositional elements (to get off, to put down), nouns with prepositions (see David Crystal) (bag of, heaps of), lexical imprecision, vagueness (words with suffix -ish, word combinations like ...sort of...). The speaker pays little attention, if any, to the form of the expression of his thoughts. His speech is less accurate (cont- rolled) than written discourse. These peculiarities are considered by linguists to be the norm, because they occur in ordinary language situations which are proved by numerous language practices. This variety of language is a widely spoken variety in English- speaking countries.Summing up, we can say that the more English learners become familiar with lexical elements (including slang), the more their vocabulary expands. When choosing a slang word, phrase or colloquial speech for active use, common sense, based on reliable reference sources, should be the main reference for English learners and teachers.ConclusionTo summarize, it may be said that the modern colloquial English has been forming for a long period of time under the influence of many factors.Mainly, it must be mentioned that evenwithin the colloquial style there are sometypes, such as literary one and a familiar one. Both of themhave a number of lexical, phonetic, syntactical and morphologicalpeculiarities. Also, thecolloquialstyle of the English language is used in informal communication: everydayatmosphere, friendlyconversation, expression of feelings and thoughts, non-compellingconversation. 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