Sentence examples for vernacular discourse from inspiring English sources

The gesture nicely epitomizes the project of the Convivio, a vernacular discourse which defines for its lay audience the limits of political and scholastic authority, and affirms the autonomy and potential dignity of individual human reason.

In vernacular discourse today, "happy" denotes a mood (the opposite of "sad"), but it also has a broader sense, as when we ask whether someone is happy (i.e., fulfilled, settled) in her job.

Back then, raw vernacular delivered rugged discourse.

In both aesthetics discourse and common vernacular, the term 'aesthetic' is generally used in the honorific sense.

In this context, discourses of the vernacular are explored, which demonstrate its neo-endogenous attributes, in describing not only traditional aesthetics and local material, but also collaborative action and governance.

Both terms, malaria and homa, were reported to be current and carry the same meaning in the vernacular Kimakonde as well as local Kiswahili discourses.

We're more likely these days to use the vernacular of marketing and advertising in our daily discourse, and nothing says marketing better than "green".

One of Wallace's eminent talents is his ability to juxtapose pseudo-academic discourse with unerring recreations of modern American vernacular, and the variety of voices, from the blue-collar to the would-be intellectual, add up to a comically unappealing and disconcertingly vivid portrait of the American male and his view of women.

Following the conquests, both urban and rural culture began to adopt elements of Arab culture, and an Arabic vernacular eventually replaced the Egyptian language as the common means of spoken discourse.

Over a shimmering, rattling musical background, it was a continuous spoken discourse aimed at some imaginary sad sack, crazy with old-fashioned mother-wit vernacular.

In this paper, drawing on qualitative interviews with a small number of Irish architects, we explore the discourses that architects use to produce the rural social world and the vernacular.