Further Reflecting on the Six-Year Primary Project of the Institute of Education, University of Ife: The Key Players by Toyin Falola, Michael Oladejo Afolayan

“…Otherwise, how else could the common warning in the typical colonial classroom “Vernacular speaking is prohibited”? The so-called “vernacular” in question is the Yoruba language!   …”
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Resolving the Problem of the Expression “Faith as Small as a Mustard Seed” in Matthew 17:20 by Ebenezer Quaye

“…Jesus’ use of mustard seed as a simile or an analogy in the description of faith has been translated and interpreted in diverse ways over the years. Whilst some vernacular and English translations referred to the size of the seed, some retained a fair comparison or analogy of the mustard seed to faith without referring to any salient trait or characteristic. …”
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Bridging past and present: exploring Cannabis traditions in Armenia through ethnobotanical interviews and bibliographic prospecting by Manica Balant, Teresa Garnatje, Daniel Vitales, Marine Oganesian, Joan Vallès, Nina Stepanyan-Gandilyan, Airy Gras

“…Results During the interviews 52 use reports and 3 vernacular names were recorded, while the bibliographic data from 20 references, provided us with 56 use reports and 17 Cannabis vernacular names, from the 5th century to 2020. …”
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RUKUN NASUTION (1928-1998) AND HIS POETRY CORPUS: A Preliminary Study by Hasan Asari, Yusnaili Budianti

“…</p><p><strong>Keywords</strong>: Islamic poetry, Malay literature, vernacular literature, Rukun Nasution</p>…”
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El país del que vienen los monstruos by Santiago Barreiro

“…The analysis focuses on the first element (fīfẹl-), given the complexity involved in its explanation, by reference to its ties with biblical themes, and to two close vernacular literatures, Irish and Old Norse. The text proposes that, instead of proposing a directly monstrous character as it is usual in translations, the expression refers mostly to a space of wilderness and excess.…”
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Poezia senzationalului și sentimentul tragicului în romanul Îngerul a strigat by Dragoș M. Vicol

“…In the same time, the vernacular realism is combined with an ancestral wisdom and this is the secret of an incomparable art of story-telling.…”
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La peur des reptiles (récits de voyage, xvie-xviiie siècle) by Jean-Paul Duviols

“…The first European discoverers of the New World wrote stories full of awe and amazement which favoured descriptions of «wild» indigenous populations, and were replaced by other accounts focused on nature, thus contributing to develop America’s exotic vision. In the vernacular wildlife, reptiles became an outstanding subject: this study presents fragments of illustrated travel stories (16th-18th centuries), either picturesque o more seriously documented, aiming to satisfy European curiosity for American snakes.…”
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Barbarie en plural: percepciones del indígena en el auge cauchero boliviano by Lorena I. Córdoba

“…From the final decades of the 19th century to the beginnings of the 20th, the vernacular societies held ambivalent relations with the colonization forces (commerce, alliance, armed clashes, etc.). …”
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Entre la thérapie et le péché : enquêtes parallèles sur l’expression de la joie (Bernart de Ventadorn et le Roman d’Énéas) by Valeria Russo

“…At the beginning of vernacular literatures in medieval Europe, courtly love in gallo-roman traditions appears as fixed within a discursive system in which the expression of joy is one of the main vectors. …”
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Islam, langues et identités régionales dans l’Inde coloniale : l’exemple du Sindh (1851-1939) by Michel Boivin

“…The starting hypothesis is that the use of specific languages, either classical (Arabic and Persian) or vernacular (Sindhi dialects) corresponded to types of local knowledge without being hermetic. …”
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Eastern Bloodsucking Conenose, Triatoma sanguisuga (LeConte) (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Triatominae) by John L. Capinera

“…Despite their affectionate vernacular name, they are particularly threatening “assassin bugs” who require blood meals to survive and reproduce. …”
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Note, à propos des noms vernaculaires chinois dans la Flora cochinchinensis (1790) de Loureiro by André-Georges Haudricourt, Georges Métailié

“…Merrill noted that vernacular plant names in some ancient botanical texts can help botanists identify the original plants. …”
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“There is a community of mind in it”: Quoting Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century by John Mullan

“…The acceptance and celebration of a vernacular canon of English Literature, with Shakespeare’s drama at its heart, gave rise to the art and pleasure of quoting Shakespeare. …”
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Eastern Bloodsucking Conenose, Triatoma sanguisuga (LeConte) (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Triatominae) by John L. Capinera

“…Despite their affectionate vernacular name, they are particularly threatening “assassin bugs” who require blood meals to survive and reproduce. …”
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Zur Bedeutung der Wörter in der Rechts- und Sprachtheorie der frühen Neuzeit by Jan Schröder

“…This was possibly due to the rise of the vernacular languages. …”
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Consécration de la faune et de la flore comme motifs esthétiques et d’identité culturelle dans l’art mexicain du xxe siècle by Christine Frérot

“…The scientific discoveries inspired European and New World artists who focused on vernacular flora to exalt new values, not only esthetic, but identity and nationalist ones as well. …”
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Perceptions et changements d’usages de zeb a pik (Neurolaena lobata et espèces affines) à la Martinique by Marc-Alexandre Tareau, Alexandre Thésée, Guillaume Odonne

“…We are also interested in the complex of species that share the same vernacular name (zeb a pik) in order to contribute to a clearer understanding of these singular herbal uses. …”
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Un paradis sans corps ? Festins célestes et ivresses spirituelles dans l’Angleterre anglo-saxonne by Alban Gautier

“…Whereas Latin prose tends to evoke bodies and food without reluctance, vernacular poetry appears much more cautious towards such representations.…”
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La mémoire partagée de « la vie de café » dans les quartiers populaires centraux d’immigration by Catherine Gauthier

“…The research and the film allow us to visit the history of the declining commercial central locations, and to chart the traces of a vernacular culture of socio-cultural diversity.…”
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Dr. Andries Albertus Odendaal Snr., evangeliedraer in 'n multi-dimensionele konteks. 'n Kort historiese oorsig en sendingkundige evaluering van sy lewe en werk (Deel 2) by P. Robinson

“…This second part of the article discusses Odendaal’s involvement in theological and pastoral training, as well as his continued contributions on synodical level, in particular his endeavour for church unity, his appreciation of and working in the vernacular, his appointment as Bible translator, his passion for preaching the gospel, a testing experience in his life, and the way in which he was honoured by old students and the University of the Free State. …”
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