Sentences with phrase «vernacular languages»
"Vernacular languages" refers to languages that are spoken by the ordinary people in a specific region or community. It is the everyday language used by people in their daily lives, rather than the official or formal language of a country or region. Full definition
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.
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Blue collar workers in these factories often do not understand English and it is necessary to impart training in vernacular languages.
Conceptualized as an entropic landscape, suspended between city, broadcasting machine, and labyrinth, the exhibition is punctuated by the signs, sculptures, and images, unbound from vernacular language and culture, that are at the center of Aitken's art.
It employs international codes of art history, forms produced and validated in a western cannon of modernism, the avant - garde, and later practices, as well as vernacular languages of the contemporary from places as conflicted and as hybrid as the Amazon's rubber extraction areas, Karnataka's dwindling handicraft tradition, and Hong Kong's transforming manufacturing industries.
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.
(Also, obviously, almost all of the yelling occurs in the local vernacular language and not in British English).
As immaculately crafted and performed as «Vera Drake» was, it didn't, for me, play to Leigh's strengths as a writer: his witty ear for vernacular language and his preoccupation with the tensions and absurdities inherent in everyday conversation.
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 artists exhibited share experiences both from within Greece and internationally, creating a unique context in the place we live in, producing wider context yet still using a unique vernacular language.
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.
A final group of works source vernacular language from auto body collision centers to highlight the relationships between image, body and the self — as in A SELF.
The translation of the Bible into English, German and other vernacular languages coupled with Gutenberg's printing press caused a rapid distribution of the Bible.
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.
They facilitate access to justice through the publication of legal analyses of empiric cases in vernacular language.
Any adaptation to the characteristics or the nature of the various vernacular languages is to be sober and discreet.»
Amazon sees self - published authors as one of the key drivers of its e-books business globally and, in India, the company is even looking to expand into vernacular languages, according to Neal Thompson, Amazon's director for author and publishing relations.
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.
In Africa alone, the Bible has been translated into 522 vernacular languages, with texts in over 200 additional languages now under development.
Two congregations on the West Coast intentionally use clear, vernacular language in liturgy.
This is delivered to the blue collar workers in these locations after the module has been translated to the vernacular language.
Ronny Quevedo's artistic practice is an examination of the vernacular languages and aesthetic forms generated by displacement, migration, and resilience.
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.
[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.
It's an ongoing exploration of the visual potential of words, through the use of vernacular language and popular culture.
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.
Housemaid Amelia Bedelia just can't get the hang of vernacular language — and ends up making more messes than she cleans up.
The historic technical distinction in the law (especially in tort law) between assault and battery has been collapsed in the everyday vernacular and this had made its way even into the way that the words are used even by law enforcement officers and legislators, who grew up speaking the vernacular language like everyone else.