What's the difference between vernacular and vernacularism?

Vernacular


Definition:

  • (a.) Belonging to the country of one's birth; one's own by birth or nature; native; indigenous; -- now used chiefly of language; as, English is our vernacular language.
  • (n.) The vernacular language; one's mother tongue; often, the common forms of expression in a particular locality.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The perception that high-achieving businesswomen are more vulnerable than their male counterparts to being abruptly fired – pushed off the "glass cliff" in the contemporary corporate vernacular – has been borne out by a new study from a global management consultancy.
  • (2) "Counter to the notion of modernity as an all-consuming phenomenon," say the curators, the youngest of the bunch aged 30, "a study of our everyday interiors reveals a vernacular architecture in which it seems that modernity itself is being consumed and absorbed."
  • (3) For each species listed, the family, the botanical name, the voucher specimen number, the vernacular name, the pharmacological and therapeutical properties are given.
  • (4) Its dictionary definition is “a Scots word meaning scrotum, in Scots vernacular a term of endearment but in English could be taken as an insult”.
  • (5) His adrenalin-pumping shows are woven into American life, yet subvert its capitalist fundamentals, that innate American principle of screw-thy-neighbour, in favour of what he insists to be "real" America – working class, militant, street-savvy, tough but romantic, nomadic but with roots – compiled into what feels like a single epic but vernacular rock-opera lasting four decades.
  • (6) James is establishing a standard, and he is doing so in a manner that underscores he is a student of political change, not just a parrot of its vernacular.
  • (7) Twelve medicinal drugs have been identified by chemical investigations and are presented in one table with the vernacular names (in Dari, Pasto and Kati); the origins and the therapeutical uses are listed in another table with their cultural background in pre-Islamic (Greek and Indian medicines) and Islamic pharmacopoeia (Afghano-Persian and Arabian medicines).
  • (8) Already in 1215 itself the Charter had been translated from Latin into French, the vernacular language of the nobility.
  • (9) Now, climate change has passed into the vernacular.
  • (10) Even before Glass was released, there were movements to limit its use, with the term “glasshole” rapidly entering the vernacular.
  • (11) And I try, recognising the vernacular of the films in which I work, to have some degree of reality within the beautifying forces of that machine.
  • (12) A therapeutic model of communicative pathology is proposed for children who speak black English vernacular.
  • (13) Would others see the strength in Jim’s choice of giving up his own name to gift our family that illusive sense of unity or would they believe he was, to use the vernacular , “under the thumb”?
  • (14) The first was the development of a new approach to crime, or the prospect of it, based on what the policy wonk vernacular calls multi-agency prevention.
  • (15) The Sex Respect Program may have contributed to more change because it used the student's vernacular and had better visual aids.
  • (16) Whereas al-Qaida is elitist and detached from ordinary Muslims, Isis tends to be more vernacular in the way it addresses its audience and their grievances and aspirations.
  • (17) Princes did try to control it and Catholic countries were far worse than the emerging Protestant ones – for whom the vernacular translation of the bible was transforming – but they went with the technological flow.
  • (18) Their numbers amaze and please me and they still keep coming as new titles are translated and some fresh vernacular markets - Hindi, Vietnamese - open up.
  • (19) At the end of May, the terms "top kill" and "junk shot" entered the worldwide vernacular , as BP tried to force heavy mud, and later golf balls and bits of tyre through the blow-out preventer.
  • (20) I use the verb “release” because it’s common vernacular.

Vernacularism


Definition:

  • (n.) A vernacular idiom.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The perception that high-achieving businesswomen are more vulnerable than their male counterparts to being abruptly fired – pushed off the "glass cliff" in the contemporary corporate vernacular – has been borne out by a new study from a global management consultancy.
  • (2) "Counter to the notion of modernity as an all-consuming phenomenon," say the curators, the youngest of the bunch aged 30, "a study of our everyday interiors reveals a vernacular architecture in which it seems that modernity itself is being consumed and absorbed."
  • (3) For each species listed, the family, the botanical name, the voucher specimen number, the vernacular name, the pharmacological and therapeutical properties are given.
  • (4) Its dictionary definition is “a Scots word meaning scrotum, in Scots vernacular a term of endearment but in English could be taken as an insult”.
  • (5) His adrenalin-pumping shows are woven into American life, yet subvert its capitalist fundamentals, that innate American principle of screw-thy-neighbour, in favour of what he insists to be "real" America – working class, militant, street-savvy, tough but romantic, nomadic but with roots – compiled into what feels like a single epic but vernacular rock-opera lasting four decades.
  • (6) James is establishing a standard, and he is doing so in a manner that underscores he is a student of political change, not just a parrot of its vernacular.
  • (7) Twelve medicinal drugs have been identified by chemical investigations and are presented in one table with the vernacular names (in Dari, Pasto and Kati); the origins and the therapeutical uses are listed in another table with their cultural background in pre-Islamic (Greek and Indian medicines) and Islamic pharmacopoeia (Afghano-Persian and Arabian medicines).
  • (8) Already in 1215 itself the Charter had been translated from Latin into French, the vernacular language of the nobility.
  • (9) Now, climate change has passed into the vernacular.
  • (10) Even before Glass was released, there were movements to limit its use, with the term “glasshole” rapidly entering the vernacular.
  • (11) And I try, recognising the vernacular of the films in which I work, to have some degree of reality within the beautifying forces of that machine.
  • (12) A therapeutic model of communicative pathology is proposed for children who speak black English vernacular.
  • (13) Would others see the strength in Jim’s choice of giving up his own name to gift our family that illusive sense of unity or would they believe he was, to use the vernacular , “under the thumb”?
  • (14) The first was the development of a new approach to crime, or the prospect of it, based on what the policy wonk vernacular calls multi-agency prevention.
  • (15) The Sex Respect Program may have contributed to more change because it used the student's vernacular and had better visual aids.
  • (16) Whereas al-Qaida is elitist and detached from ordinary Muslims, Isis tends to be more vernacular in the way it addresses its audience and their grievances and aspirations.
  • (17) Princes did try to control it and Catholic countries were far worse than the emerging Protestant ones – for whom the vernacular translation of the bible was transforming – but they went with the technological flow.
  • (18) Their numbers amaze and please me and they still keep coming as new titles are translated and some fresh vernacular markets - Hindi, Vietnamese - open up.
  • (19) At the end of May, the terms "top kill" and "junk shot" entered the worldwide vernacular , as BP tried to force heavy mud, and later golf balls and bits of tyre through the blow-out preventer.
  • (20) I use the verb “release” because it’s common vernacular.

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