TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pinto, Rochelle
TI  - Translation, script and orality: becoming a language of state 
SN  - 9789354420047
U1  - 491.469 PIN-R 
PY  - 2021///
CY  - India
PB  - Orient Blackswan
KW  - India--Goa (State)
KW  - Konkani language
N1  - Translation, Script and Orality: Becoming a Language of State traces debates around transcription/translation in Konkani that eventually contoured the development of the language towards nationalist or state-seeking forms. Though the book is structured around contemporary linguistic states such as Goa, Pinto argues for a focus on aspects of language that deviate from the nationalist literary norm. The present volume is structured as a long essay, interspersed with excerpts from the introductions and prefaces to transcribed/translated texts. The historically significant extracts demonstrate the shifts in perspectives with regard to transcription and translation, and reveal how what was once termed a dialect, acquired the symbolic attributes of cultural dominance necessitated by nationalist discourse
ER  -