Abstract
Mother-tongue is a construct of translational consciousness that is mediated through colonial culture. It is commodified as a cultural and symbolic capital on which literacy and literariness are predicated, and these constitute cultural nationalism. All this is illustrated in the case of the Odia language as explored by this paper. The paper also discusses the cultural process of the emergence of Odia mother tongue, focusing on the shift from desaja and tadbhava register to Sanskritic tatsama register with regard to the word ‘kokila’ that eventually replaced ‘koili’ in a changing poetic context.
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