Vernacular
, "as thepeoplespeak", is an ambiguous term that is no longer used in technical languages today.
definition
There are two definitions of vernacular:
- the "oral tradition living among the people"; JG Herder also coined the expression folk poetry as the entirety of popular literary and oral traditions and includes folk songs , stories, folk tales , but also proverbs , nursery rhymes , peasant rules and the like;
- the “popular language use”, the everyday language or colloquial language in contrast to the scientific language use, is also out of date for the vernacular , a word that can also stand for dialect .
Web links
Wiktionary: vernacular - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b vernacular. In: Digital dictionary of the German language . Retrieved on August 22, 2019 "oral tradition alive among the people, popular usage"
- ^ Folk poetry . In: dtv-Brockhaus , Volume 19, p. 219