Translation, script and orality: becoming a language of state

Pinto, Rochelle (2021) Translation, script and orality: becoming a language of state. Translation Studies . Orient BlackSwan, Hyderabad, p. 408. ISBN 9789354420047

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Abstract

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.

Item Type: Book
Authors: Pinto, Rochelle
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English
Subjects: Language
Literature & rhetoric
History & geography > History of Asia
Divisions: Azim Premji University - Bengaluru > School of Arts and Sciences
Full Text Status: None
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URI: http://publications.azimpremjiuniversity.edu.in/id/eprint/7745
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