10 QUOTES WITH «VERNACULAR»
Famous quotes and sentences with the word
vernacular.
I tended to emphasize the secular, the casual, the colloquial, the vernacular against the sacred.
Every black American is bilingual. All of them. We speak street vernacular and we speak 'job interview.'
We want a vernacular in art. No mere verbal or formal agreement, or dead level of uniformity but that comprehensive and harmonizing unity with individual variety which can be developed among people politically and socially free.
Baseball players practice, runners practice, so how can you practice being funny? You get up onstage. You train as an improviser, playing make-believe, using the vernacular of improvisation, saying 'yes and' to other people's ideas, making statements.
Architectural kitsch is most common in the commercial pop vernacular - typified by the Big Duck of 1931 in Flanders, New York, a Long Island roadside poultry stand resembling a duck, which Venturi and Scott Brown made a cult object through their writings.
What is American music? The most satisfying answer I've come across is that it was a kind of natural comfort with the vernacular which is diverse and regional; it's not one particular set of sounds.
In 2009, I began creating 'Waterworks' with the new vernacular coming from the 'Signs of Life' work in Las Vegas.
With the Larry Bertlemann portrait, I started with a photograph that I could use for it. I built the drawing's identity to serve as a graphic identity. After a number of sketches, I went into my own abstract vernacular of drawn lines and shapes to create the composition for the poster design.
Second, we also got a more authentic liturgy of the people of God, in the vernacular language.
While there are many experts in the psychoanalysis of individuals, there seems to be little active authority or understanding in the matter of the persistent shared madness in everyday life. It's as if collective mental illness doesn't exist except in the vernacular and in contemporary folk myth, where it remains trapped and politically useless.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «VERNACULAR»
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vernacular in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
vernacular and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Vernacular Voices: The Rhetoric of Publics and Public Spheres
A conceptual study of how rhetoric affects public opinion.
2
Invitation to
Vernacular Architecture: A Guide to the Study ...
Invitation to Vernacular Architecture: A Guide to the Study of Ordinary Buildings and Landscapes is a manual for exploring and interpreting vernacular architecture, the common buildings of particular regions and time periods.
Thomas Carter, Elizabeth C. Cromley,
2005
3
Vernacular Modernism: Heimat, Globalization, and the Built ...
"--H-Net Reviews "This collection of essays imaginatively and with great insight discusses the various vernaculars within modernist architectural practice, thereby altering our understanding of modernism's relationship to the past, its uses ...
Maiken Umbach, Bernd-Rüdiger Hüppauf,
2005
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Vernacular Architecture
Based on thirty-five years of fieldwork, Glassie's Vernacular Architecture synthesizes a career of concern with traditional building.
5
Vernacular Translation in Dante's Italy: Illiterate Literature
While Dante is usually the starting point for histories of vernacular translation in Europe, this book demonstrates that The Divine Comedy places itself in opposition to a vast vernacular literature already in circulation among its readers.
6
Built to Meet Needs: Cultural Issues in
Vernacular Architecture
In this book, vernacular architecture specialist Paul Oliver brings together a wealth of information that spans over two decades, and the whole globe.
7
Radical
Vernacular: Lorine Niedecker and the Poetics of Place
This pathbreaking volume contains essays by seventeen leading scholars: Rae Armantrout, Glenna Breslin, Michael Davidson, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Ruth Jennison, Peter Middleton, Jenny Penberthy, Mary Pinard, Patrick Pritchett, Peter ...
8
Jazz Dance: The Story of American
Vernacular Dance
The Story of American Vernacular Dance
Marshall Winslow Stearns, Jean Stearns,
1968
9
Harry Smith: The Avant-garde in the American
Vernacular
Constituting a first attempt to locate Smith and his diverse endeavors within the history of avant-garde art production in twentieth-century America, the essays in this volume reach across Smith's artistic oeuvre.
Andrew Perchuk, Rani Singh,
2010
10
A Study of the
Vernacular Poetry of Aḥmad Fuʼād Nigm
This study provides an analysis of the social and political meanings in the protest vernacular poetry of Ah mad Fu'âd Nigm (b. 1929), the contemporary Eqyptian socialist poet.
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «VERNACULAR»
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vernacular is used in the context of the following news items.
Fault not in vernacular schools, but racial politics
COMMENT Newly-minted Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi is not the first one to ask for the removal of vernacular schools and he is not going to be ... «Malaysiakini, Aug 15»
Najib must chide ex-judge on vernacular schools
MP SPEAKS Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak should learn to emulate the ideas of Professor Dr Shamsul Amri Baharuddin on vernacular schools or grab the ... «Malaysiakini, Jul 15»
BIG wants to create new styles of vernacular architecture, says …
"What we've been interested in is in a way not to return to the vernacular, but what you can call 'Vernacular 2.0'," said the architect, who is founder of Danish ... «Dezeen, May 15»
The joys of vernacular
Nearly two decades ago, when Australian left-arm speedster Bruce Reid ran into bowl at Chennai's M.A. Chidambaram Stadium, fondly called the Chepauk, ... «The Hindu, Apr 15»
Independent debuts new vernacular publication
Johannesburg - Independent Media has launched I'solezwe lesiXhosa, the company's first vernacular publication in the Eastern Cape. It will be available to the ... «Independent Online, Mar 15»
Speaking in the Vernacular
Captured in an audio recording in 1898, Wombough's voice is among those immortalized in the Vernacular Wax Cylinder Recordings at the UC Santa Barbara ... «The UCSB Current, Mar 15»
Strong case for vernacular titles in SA
Twenty-one years after the dawn of democracy we have only one daily vernacular title esingazingomba izifuba ngayo (that we can beat our chests about): ... «Independent Online, Mar 15»
Marilyn Monroe Selfie Leads Swann Galleries Auction of Vernacular …
New York—Swann Galleries continues to lead the auction market in the area of Vernacular Photography, with a second sale devoted to this material on ... «Fine Books & Collections Magazine, Dec 14»
Shutting vernacular schools would hurt Bumis too, says Umno man
An Umno delegate oppposes his party colleagues' call for single stream education, saying that over 40 per cent of students in Sabah's vernacular schools were ... «Malay Mail Online, Nov 14»
Vernacular education a political football for those seeking fame, say …
Experts say there is no evidence that vernacular schools cause communal disunity. – The Malaysian Insider file pic, November 12, 2014.The debate on whether ... «The Malaysian Insider, Nov 14»