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This paper summarizes the author’s research on the category of common speech. It discussed briefl y the evolution of the approaches dealing with the relative importance of common speech among other varieties of the Polish language as well as the issue of the common speech as an interactive, informal, situational, and less grammaticalised variety. The study also reveals the factors enabling this variety to expand and proliferate and defi nes certain features structuring the common, everyday text: its concreteness, visual and dialogical nature as well as immersion in a situation.