THE LANGUAGE CHOICE OF CHINESE COMMUNITY IN MEDAN: A SOCIOLINGUISTICS STUDY by Vivi Adryani Nasution, Niza Ayuningtyas

“…The manifestation of language choice in the domain of family and occupation especially in inter-ethnic relation is dominated by vernacular language, especially Hokkien language although respondents come from non-Hokkien ethnic. …”
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Comunidades de práctica de la lengua caboverdiana y de A Fala de Xálima. Estudio comparativo by Natalia Czopek, Bartosz Dondelewski

“…We define the community of practice as an aggregate of people who come together around mutual engagement in an endeavour of preserving and promoting their vernacular language. The empirical material will be a series of anthropological observations and comments on the semi-directed interviews, made in situ by the authors, in which we will compare, for instance, the efforts towards the orthographic standardization of the two systems and their possible effects. …”
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L’architecture et le paysage du village berbère de Zraoua dans les montagnes du sud-est de la Tunisie : le patrimoine dans un lieu en voie d’abandon by Miguel Reimão Costa, Nouri Boukhchim, Desidério Batista, Meriem Marzouki

“…This abandoned village constitutes an interesting case for the integrated study of vernacular architecture and cultural landscapes in Mediterranean mountainous regions. …”
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Bernard Lassus : une pratique démesurable pour le paysage by Massimo Venturi Ferriolo

“…Then, fulfilled by new visual and tactile experimentations and by the development of a sort of vernacular landscapism and its actors "landscaper Inhabitant", his concepts have again evolved. …”
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Agrobiodiversité et pratiques agricoles dans le pays Jbala (Tafza et Bellota) by Alexandrine Barontini, Younes Hmimsa

“…Physical, natural, socio-economic and historic particularities created favorable conditions maintaining several rare cultivated plants and practices.Thanks to the international scientific cooperation project (PICS) « La Montagne et ses Savoirs », we have collected (between October 2013 and April 2014) a series of interviews with farmers, merchants or inhabitants of the region, in two sites: Tafza and Bellota.We present here the results of a modest comparison between the agro-biological diversity and the linguistic diversity, through some of the vernacular taxinomy concerning fruits and fruit trees.…”
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Early experiences of patellofemoral arthritis symptoms: A qualitative study in Gujarat, India by Heta R. Patel, M. Balaganapathy, Bipin Serasiya

“…They were interviewed either in person or online using the Zoom platform, with an expert clinician using a semistructured interview guide in the vernacular language. Results: A scoping review was conducted to find the reported symptoms of the condition, which were identified as anterior knee pain, crepitus, pain while sitting down, walking uphill, and kneeling. …”
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“To Ensure that these Emotions are Passed to the Next Generation”: The Netherlands American Military Cemetery in Margraten as a site of Transatlantic Memory Diplomacy during George... by Albertine Bloemendal

“…By incorporating the role and agency of Dutch citizens in the development of the local commemorative culture, which in turn informed alternative—‘vernacular’—interpretations of the ‘meaning’ of Margraten as a lieu de mémoire, it demonstrates not only how top-down—‘official’—aims and narratives were at times contested, but also how public diplomacy has the power to obfuscate such alternative meanings, while simultaneously building upon these citizen initiatives for its own purposes. …”
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Faouzi Laatiris : fugues chimériques dans la mondialisation by Morad Montazami

“…Torn between his interest for Western modern art and his intimate relation to the Moroccan land, its traditions and vernacular knowledge, he ends up constructing objects and installations demonstrating – as he puts it himself –a kind of “cultural schizophrenia”. …”
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« L’étrangeté vocalique » dans quelques nouvelles de Flannery O’Connor et de Barry Hannah by Claudia Desblaches

“…Starting from Steven Connor’s definition of “the vocalic uncanny” as thwarted or imperfect utterance or “the conflict of embodiment and meaning” (in Myth, Modernity and the Vocalic Uncanny), this article attempts to identify the different manifestations of strangeness or the uncanny, notably strange vernacular words or the repressed voice which surges unexpectedly in simple letter changes. …”
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The fabrication of synthetic data promises: Tracing emerging arenas of expectations and boundary work by Louis Ravn

“…First, it shows that scientific literatures reveal a strong increase in interest and three transformations in the framing of synthetic data in recent decades: from vernacular term to scientific concept, from possibility to inevitability, and from research technique to social promise. …”
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From Orality to Scriptuality : the Contribution of African Languages to the English Language Teaching by Andjou Frédéric KOUADIO

“…Since 1953, UNESCO, in The Use of Vernacular Languages in Education, has officially encouraged mother tongue based education. …”
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L’enseignement en architecture de paysage en Afrique by Carey Duncan

“…It would be appropriate to develop an approach integrating local history and adapting vernacular approaches, where appropriate, while retaining an universal analytical and conceptual methodology. …”
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Interview as an Act of Seduction: Analysing Problems I Have Met during My Fieldwork on the Camino de Santiago and in Glastonbury by Tiina Sepp

“…Apart from discussing fieldwork-related problems, I am also going to describe some expressions of vernacular religion and contemporary spirituality on the Camino de Santiago and in Glastonbury.…”
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"PUBLISH OR PERISH": JAVANESE LANGUAGE MAINTENANCE ON JAVANESE-ENGLISH CODE-SWITCHING SONG by Amalina Maharani, Emy Sudarwati

“…The findings of this study suggest that the phenomenon of code-switching in Lathi songs is deliberately done to keep maintaining Javanese's existence as one of the popular vernacular in Indonesia. Language maintenance of the Javanese language in a song named Lathi can pique the public's interest in learning Javanese by creating Javanese language maintenance represented in its song lyrics. …”
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Ansanus “the Baptizer” and the Problem of Siena’s Non-Existent Early Episcopacy (c. 1100–1600) by Carol A. Anderson

“…Yet, only beginning in the fifteenth century do vernacular passions and images of Ansanus baptizing the Sienese appear, revealing that the baptismal event emerged as a defining point in the sacred history of the city and was communicated to citizens both textually and visually. …”
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Literatura populară în lumina tiparului. Bibliofilie românească în colecţiile Bibliotecii Naţionale a României by Andreea Răsboiu

“…Representing successive vernacular translations and abridgments in many cases of intermediary slavic versions and not very often of the Byzantine, Italian or German original, these writings have blended in with the cultural mentality, folklore and local spirit, achieving authenticity and resemblance to the Romanian real life from that time. …”
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Elevating the Antagonist Encounter: How the ‘Stitch’ Transforms Victimhood Contestation on TikTok by Marloes Geboers, Esther Hammelburg

“…This study draws attention to the platform vernacular practice of the ‘stitch.’ Allowing users to respond to someone else by ‘remixing’ social media content of others, the stitch is a platform practice designed for commentary. …”
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Cormac McCarthy’s The Road : Rewriting the Myth of the American West by Aitor Ibarrola-Armendariz

“…Most likely influenced by some recent events that have deeply shaken the country and others affecting his personal life, McCarthy can be seen to abandon the landscapes and vernacular rhythms that had become the staple of his artistic performance. …”
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Laura Endress, Les trajectoires textuelles de l’Hercule médiéval : de la mythographie à l’historiographie et au-delà. Avec édition critique partielle du livre IX de l’Ovide moralis... by Laura Endress

“…Texts examined include, on the one hand, Latin commentaries on the Classics – on the Metamorphoses in particular – and related mythographic treatises, and, on the other, vernacular historiographical compilations, which evolved in close relation to works of historical romance. …”
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Grendel’s Mere, Beowulf’s Dive, and the Visio Sancti Pauli by Rafael Pascual

“…The essay proposes that the poet took the motif of the fiery river from a vernacular version of the Visio Sancti Pauli (long thought to be among the poet’s sources) and rationalized it as an ordinary fire misconstrued by Hrothgar as a supernatural wonder, thereby playing with the audience’s expectations. …”
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