Housemaid Amelia Bedelia just can't get the hang
of vernacular language — and ends up making more messes than she cleans up.
[Because my work includes] a kind
of vernacular language, as well as a «being English» kind of thing, maybe that makes it more readable in some way.
The first passage on the fifth - grade reading test was «My Grandma Talley,» a short story by Nadine Oduor that makes frequent use
of vernacular language.
We could say that when missionaries adopted the specificity
of vernacular languages and cultures as vehicles for the gospel, they were extending the principle of Jewish particularity, the paradigm by which God has chosen to instruct the world in righteousness.
Ronny Quevedo's artistic practice is an examination
of the vernacular languages and aesthetic forms generated by displacement, migration, and resilience.
Not exact matches
SIL's Language and Culture Archives houses over 60,000 works
of various kinds, including scholarly publications, Bible translations, and
vernacular literacy materials in addition to SIL's flagship publication, the Ethnologue — an online database
of the world's more than 7,000 living
languages.
Vatican II mandated the use
of vernacular translations for pastoral reasons, but always envisaged that Latin would remain the primary
language of the Mass..
And they were able to read it in
language written so that anyone, even, as Tyndale wrote, «the boy who driveth the plow,» could understand it.1 The Word became, as Ong says, silent.2 That silence has had profound influence on the way we think about religious
language, but it is well to remember that when those translations into the
vernacular were made, they were not written down in the
language of print.
Krishna in the north become the objects
of bhakti's impassioned devotion, and bhakti poetry, brimming with love for the Lord flowers in the
vernacular languages which, to some extent, take over from the
language of «high» culture, Sanskrit.
Questions are raised about the Catholic Church's relative inexperience with
vernacular liturgy compared to the 500 years» experience
of the Church
of England which allowed a sacral
vernacular language to emerge.
Moreover, he goes on to praise the ancient Latin orations for giving «an other - worldly, superhuman atmosphere through their sense
of age and mystery», which rather suggests that he was neither as favourable towards a
vernacular Mass, nor as opposed to the use
of «archaic
language», as Fr Hill so confidently declares.
For example, writing
of Rosmini's book The Five Wounds
of the Church, in which Rosmini describes the obstacles an exclusively Latin liturgy can pose for effective evangelisation, Fr Hill not only proposes his hero as an early proponent
of the
vernacular Mass, but goes on to add (in a rather sly footnote) that Rosmini would also have been opposed to «the deliberate use
of archaic
language»
of which «the new
vernacular translations
of the Mass are an example».
Any adaptation to the characteristics or the nature
of the various
vernacular languages is to be sober and discreet.»
Missions helped to preserve
languages that were threatened by a rising linguafranca, extended the influence
of the
vernacular through careful methodical and systematic investigations in the field, and helped to establish connections within the wider family
of languages.
Islamic reform has nowhere to my knowledge made the perpetuation
of the
vernacular a concomitant
of orthodox rectitude, and I know
of no Muslim
language institutes dedicated to the systematic study
of the
vernacular.
Later, as Christians became more powerful in the culture, they had to decide whether to translate the «holy»
language of the Church into the
vernacular, using the new technology
of the printing press.
Apply the tools
of learning normally reserved for studying a foreign
language to this
vernacular form
of expression, and make this study a recognized, sanctioned part
of the curriculum.
Ways
of speaking reflect the aesthetic and communicative values
of both a particular congregation's culture and tradition; our
language for worship is designed to link the
vernacular with the formal.
IHOP's liturgical
vernacular is full
of sarcastic
language.
Like other Protestants, Reformed teachers urged the use
of the various
vernacular languages in worship and theological writing so as to enable the common people's participation.
The Hinayana canon or, as it is called, the Pali or Theravada canon has come down to us through the Pali
language, a
vernacular derived from the Sanskrit and closely akin to the native
language of Gautama, the founder
of Buddhism, which was Magadhi.
Their reintroduction
of the
vernacular was jarring to some since it required that divine worship be offered to Almighty God in the
language used by businessmen in the marketplace and by husbands and wives in the privacy
of their bedchambers.
It's bound to fail, just ask the Church how successful they were in trying to maintain power by keeping their books and traditions in a
language other than that
of the common
vernacular.
(Also, obviously, almost all
of the yelling occurs in the local
vernacular language and not in British English).
Though the DB11, introduced in 2016, was kissed with a touch
of contemporary design
language in the form
of aerodynamic curlicues and a subtly pointed tail, it also kept a foot planted in the grand touring
vernacular intended to satisfy the tweedy old world set.
Unlike those who came before him, and many
of his contemporaries who wrote in French or Latin, Chaucer wrote in the English
vernacular thus lending credibility and legitimacy to the
language.
Acclaimed philosopher and historian A.C. Grayling points to three primary factors that led to the rise
of vernacular (popular)
languages in philosophy, theology, science, and literature; the rise
of the individual as a general and not merely an aristocratic type; and the invention and application
of instruments and measurement in the study
of the natural world.
We are looking at further crowd funding to translate the game into 13
vernacular Indian
languages, and probable future localizations
of the game, starting with a game for the European market.»
30:05: The inspiration for Jennifer's new work - in - progress «Cold - blooded», the value
of African American
Vernacular English, and what it means to not feel safe to use your
language openly
This relocation marked a shift from the gritty urban detritus that had been the basis
of much
of the earlier work to a rhapsodic embrace
of color and geometric abstraction in a wholly new
vernacular language.
The
vernacular language that Oursler employs is written to be spoken by «electronic entities» and carries a sort
of musical cadence that makes his text surprisingly lyrical.
Sadie Barnette uses drawing, photography, objects, book and print making, and site - specific interventions to construct a visual
language out
of cultural codes and west coast
vernacular, economic formalism, text and abstractions.
The hybridisation
of motifs, techniques and materials operative at different levels
of their work allows an endless back and forth between the basic obviousness
of the Pop imagery allied to a
vernacular language and the secondary effects
of a conceptual posture that is indifferent to its natural imagery and to the context
of its exhibition.
Without formal training (in Lockett's case, deliberately so) and working largely with found materials, Lockett, Dial, Holley and peers like Joe Minter took their visual
language from traditional black Southern
vernacular art forms like the scrap quilt and the yard show but adapted it to speak
of personal philosophies, social issues and the African - American experience.
He was considered the founder
of a new style
of Thai poetry, one that used
vernacular, simple
language as opposed to the erudite style that had characterized Thai poetry in the past.
Phillipson excels in her use
of vernacular forms and the ability to seize the
language of spectacle, to produce playful irony and reveal deeper truths by amplification, repetition and saturation.
She builds letters and phrases out
of vernacular materials such as cardboard, wood, and cinder blocks, calling attention to the ways
language and imagery are constructed.
«Rathbone's willingness to embrace a
vernacular distinct from the realms
of the conventional
languages of contemporary art is demonstrated throughout his practice.
They — along with many other artists whose works could easily have fit in this exhibition — are
vernacular cosmopolitans
of a kind, moving in - between cultural traditions, and revealing hybrid forms
of life and art that do not have a prior existence within the discrete world
of any single culture or
language.
This exhibition will showcase work by emerging and established artists who deal with semiotics and whose use
of type and
language is a reoccurring part
of their artistic
vernacular.
In the late 1980s and after decades
of hiding from the strict authorities the Moscow Conceptualists had become a closed sect with their own esoteric,
vernacular,
language.
Using the written word as a foundation for photographs, she constructs images by building letters and phrases out
of vernacular materials such as cardboard, wood, and cinder blocks, calling attention to the ways
language and imagery are put together.
Key to the selected works are their respective engagements with the
vernacular of the Internet, using the
language and appearance
of user - generated content, working with or referencing online structures found in games, video diaries and blogs.
His works often call into question issues
of police violence and authoritarianism exercised against youth and communities
of color, as well as highlight
vernacular language, architecture, and food culture associated with the urban lexicon.
In a career spanning more than five decades, Ruscha has distilled the archetypal signs and symbols
of the American
vernacular into typographic and cinematic codes that are as accessible as they are profound.The wry choice
of words and phrases that pervade his work draws upon the moments
of incidental ambiguity implicit in the interplay between
language and the concept that it signifies.
Vertical roll, black, neon and strobe light; dancers, musicians, computer
language, television broadcast and satellite transmission form the visual and aural
vernacular of his tapes and films, recently gathered under the title, Channel Mix.
With such a range
of enjoyably gaudy works, it poses the question whether the exhibition design, in its elegant economy
of means, might too have spoken the
vernacular language of the works it displays.
She works towards an eco-aesthetics, drawing from the
vernacular language of hunters and trappers who model and engage with beyond - human worlds.
His Campbell soup cans and Coke bottles speak a
vernacular language anyone can understand; like Joseph Beuys» fat and felt, they resonated too with widespread memories
of cold and hunger for a postwar generation.
For Roberts, the paintings are «collections
of ambient
language used to derive an intensely visual abstract
vernacular.»