Abstract:Surveying a representative sample of studies of colloquialisation, a tendency for written norms to move closer to
spoken usage, the chapter explores:
the relationship between colloquialisation, operationalised in exclusively linguistic terms, and
informalisation and democratisation, two processes primarily targeting wider sociocultural change, and
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