Colloquiality in the Style of Contemporary Czech Written Journalism

Abstract

The article deals with the penetration of colloquial (informal) language means into Czech journalistic texts. The main part of the article focuses on the use of univerbized or abbreviated words (lahváč, kilák) and loanwords from German (mord).

Keywords

• colloquiality
• journalistic texts
• univerbization
• abbreviation
• German loanwords in Czech