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| − | (1) | + | (1) The language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region. |
(2) The terminology used by people belonging to a specified group or engaging in a specialized activity. | (2) The terminology used by people belonging to a specified group or engaging in a specialized activity. | ||
| − | (3) | + | (3) Architecture concerned with domestic and functional rather than public or monumental buildings. |
adjective: vernacular | adjective: vernacular | ||
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| − | Vernacular: | + | (1) (Of language) spoken as one's mother tongue; not learned or imposed as a second language. (Of speech or written works) spoken or written using one's mother tongue. "vernacular literature" |
| + | (2) (Of architecture) concerned with domestic and functional rather than public or monumental buildings. "vernacular buildings" | ||
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| + | Vernacular: Usually the vernacular, refers to the language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region: he wrote in the vernacular to reach a larger audience. | ||
| + | |concepts:description=Vernacular values, in Illich’s sense, are the use-values, practices, and forms of livelihood that arise from autonomous, homegrown, and reciprocal ways of meeting everyday needs outside the market and bureaucratic control. They refer to activities people do for themselves and with others—such as speaking, caring, feeding, building, learning, or healing—without these being organized primarily through commodity exchange, professional management, or state provision. In this sense, vernacular values name a domain of subsistence, competence, and communal autonomy that resists commodification and the economic logic of scarcity. | ||
|concepts:type=alternativeworldviews, praxes, companionconcepts | |concepts:type=alternativeworldviews, praxes, companionconcepts | ||
|concepts:relations=Eutopía, Relationality, Buen Vivir | |concepts:relations=Eutopía, Relationality, Buen Vivir | ||
Revision as of 02:22, 10 March 2026
noun: vernacular
(1) The language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region. (2) The terminology used by people belonging to a specified group or engaging in a specialized activity. (3) Architecture concerned with domestic and functional rather than public or monumental buildings.
adjective: vernacular
(1) (Of language) spoken as one's mother tongue; not learned or imposed as a second language. (Of speech or written works) spoken or written using one's mother tongue. "vernacular literature" (2) (Of architecture) concerned with domestic and functional rather than public or monumental buildings. "vernacular buildings"
Vernacular: Usually the vernacular, refers to the language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region: he wrote in the vernacular to reach a larger audience.
Vernacular values, in Illich’s sense, are the use-values, practices, and forms of livelihood that arise from autonomous, homegrown, and reciprocal ways of meeting everyday needs outside the market and bureaucratic control. They refer to activities people do for themselves and with others—such as speaking, caring, feeding, building, learning, or healing—without these being organized primarily through commodity exchange, professional management, or state provision. In this sense, vernacular values name a domain of subsistence, competence, and communal autonomy that resists commodification and the economic logic of scarcity.
Illustrator: Omar Valencia Pérez