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词汇 vernacular
释义 vernacular
noun[ Cusually singular ]
uk /vəˈnæk.jə.lər/ us /vɚˈnæk.jə.lɚ/
the form of a language that a particular group of speakers use naturally, especially in informal situations: 本地话,方言;白话
The Spanish I learned at school is very different from the local vernacular of this Mexican village.我在学校里学的西班牙语与我现在住的这个墨西哥村子里所说的本地方言差别非常大。
Many Roman Catholics regret the replacing of the Latin mass by the vernacular.很多天主教徒认为用方言代替拉丁语做弥撒是件很让人惋惜的事。
architecture specialized
a local style in which ordinary houses are built: (建筑的)本地风格,民间风格
For most houses concrete is the vernacular.
We can adapt the house types to fit the vernacular.
art, music specialized
dance, music, art, etc. that is in a style liked or performed by ordinary people: (艺术的)民间风格
The second movement had extremes of refined string sound and robust wind playing, positioning high art next to the vernacular.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

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acrolect
argot
basilect
cant
colloquialism
demotic
jargon
jargonistic
journalese
legalese
lingo
lingua franca
patois
pidgin
pidginization
pidginize
plain English
psychobabble
shibboleth
vernacularly

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vernacular
adjective
uk /vəˈnæk.jə.lər/ us /vɚˈnæk.jə.lɚ/
using the form of a language that a particular group of speakers use naturally, especially in informal situations:
His lively vernacular style goes down well with younger viewers.
The folk tale is told in a vernacular dialect.
architecture specialized
in the local style of ordinary houses:
old stone vernacular buildings
Wright's prairie houses derived from American vernacular traditions.
art, music specialized
in a style that is liked or performed by ordinary people:
He went on to raise the vernacular practice of animal painting to extraordinary heights.
B.B. King was a musical genius who soaked up the multiple influences of America's vernacular music.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Forms of languages & specialist dialects
acrolect
argot
basilect
cant
colloquialism
demotic
jargon
jargonistic
journalese
legalese
lingo
lingua franca
patois
pidgin
pidginization
pidginize
plain English
psychobabble
shibboleth
vernacularly

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Architecture
The visual arts in general

vernacular | American Dictionary


vernacular
noun[ C/U ]
us/vərˈnæk·jə·lər, vəˈnæk-/
the form of a language commonly spoken by the people of a particular region or by a particular group, esp. when it is different from the standard language:
[ U ]Much of his poetry derives from the American pop vernacular.

vernacular


adjectiveus/vərˈnæk·jə·lər, vəˈnæk-/
a vernacular expression

Examples of vernacular


vernacular
They were also bending the vernaculars to their will and making them do new things.
The final chapters focus on education in and attitudes toward vernaculars.
Rather than drawing on reified colonial constructions, planning efforts should concentrate on urban vernaculars, which are inherently mixed.
Instead, as the influence of the language began to decline, several of the newly confident national vernaculars were already competing to take its place.
The second finding is that there is an indexical or even iconic relationship (as argued here) between vernaculars and masculinity.
The aim is to situate spoken vernaculars, and in particular their nonstandard features, within the context of their trajectory of development.
Because of the social significance of writing, the use of urban vernaculars in written form in particular may serve as a form of social legitimation.
By trying to claim the local vernaculars as government property, the administration simply cut itself off from the people it would rule.
Thus, the potential for this kind of reversal is always likely to be present in vernaculars.
The present study compares the phoneme isolation performance of two groups of children speaking two different regional vernaculars.
A substantial and rising proportion of women could be reached by information in the trade language and vernaculars.
Rather, its local vernaculars cemented distance between the mass of urban society and an emergent middle-class political and cultural elite.
Generally, the use of these vernaculars was independent of people's religious affiliation.
The double morphological forms illustrate the variation within urban vernaculars.
Urban vernaculars have been studied and analyzed with respect to urban contexts almost exclusively.
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