Sentences with phrase «of vernacular languages»

Ronny Quevedo's artistic practice is an examination of the vernacular languages and aesthetic forms generated by displacement, migration, and resilience.
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.
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.
[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.
Housemaid Amelia Bedelia just can't get the hang of vernacular language — and ends up making more messes than she cleans up.

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
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