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Vernacular is the ordinary, informal,
spoken form of language,
particularly when
perceived as
having lower social status or less
prestige than standard...
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Vernacular architecture (also folk architecture) is
building done
outside any
academic tradition, and
without professional guidance. It is not a particular...
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Vernacular literature is
literature written in the
vernacular—the
speech of the "common people". In the
European tradition, this
effectively means literature...
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Vernacular music is ordinary,
everyday music such as po****r and folk music. It is
defined partly in
terms of its accessibility,
standing in
contrast to...
- African-American
Vernacular English (AAVE) is the
variety of
English natively spoken,
particularly in
urban communities, by most working- and middle-class...
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Scottish Vernacular architecture is a form of
vernacular architecture that uses
local materials. In Scotland, as elsewhere,
vernacular architecture employs...
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Vernacular geography is the
sense of
place that is
revealed in
ordinary people's language.
Current research by the
Ordnance Survey is
attempting to understand...
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replace classical Chinese with a
written vernacular. Some of the most
important proponents of
vernacularization were Mao
Zedong and
renowned writer Lu Xun...
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vernacular in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A
vernacular is the
common speech variety of a
specific po****tion, as
opposed to the national...
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Vernacular orientation refers to the
status that a
language is
afforded by one of its mother-tongue
speakers (Tiessen, 2003). This
status is exhibited...
