Word: vernacular
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...fact that this is a darkly bizarre fantasy world that bears superficial resemblance to the real one but obeys few of its laws. The book's strangest quality is that it has only the faintest tint or scent of India. Except for proper names, the book's vernacular and cultural references are almost entirely American, and impressively authentic at that. The hard-boiled dialogue is straight out of classic Hollywood, a tongue-in-cheek tribute to the Anglo-American spy spoof. If Bond and Matt Helm outrageously flout social norms, MM seems to follow an inverted morality, almost defying...
...Bahal: The book deliberately has an American tone. It's very trendy now with the upper-middle class in India to pick up the American vernacular. All of my favorite authors are Americans from the '50s and '60s, people like J.D. Salinger, Joseph Heller and Jack Kerouac, even Tom Wolfe...
Adams’ music is influenced by figures as disparate as Duke Ellington and Philip Glass and self-consciously rooted in the American vernacular...
Exploring what modern historians have termed “popular piety” and vernacular theology,” Bynum described the increased prevalence of blood, bloodletting, and pain in documents and sources of the late Middle Ages...
Though “Ebonics” has had a contentious history in the popular media from the mid 1990’s onward, concepts like Black English Vernacular and African-American Vernacular English have been studied systematically by sociolinguists since the early 1970’s. Though connotations of Ebonics in popular culture are negative, in linguistics, those connotations are emphatically positive, citing these speech varieties’ internal logic and rich history...