The Section "Colloquial Language Studies. Russian Spoken Language" deals with the research of issues concerning analysis of the live speech material, organized in language/speech corpora or otherwise. The analysis can be made at any language level and be both theoretical (problems of the theory of discourse or speech acts; issues of system, norm, usage, intralinguistic interference, grammar of speech/ use, etc.) and purely practical (analysis of the material for lexicographic description of oral spontaneous speech, linguodidactic developments on the basis of speech material, results of the field and corpus studies, etc.). Papers devoted to the study of minority languages can also be presented at the Section.