(Speech at Gulab Awards)
1. Konkanichem girest Daiz
Konkani vixim amchi nodor mottvi
Konkani bhasxeche lipikoron ( scripto-centric reduction)
Poroxn Chin : Konkani nagri purti ? (intorogating the nagrization of Konkani)
Konkani lipichea sankleache bondentelan mekleponn/ sutka ( Nagrization is not merely choice of script. It is political and caste laden)
2. Lipiche bondon somzunk adar
Martin Heidegger’s Overcoming Onto-theological thinking
Derrida’s Logocentrism
Light from Linguistics
Julia Kristeva’s Chora and Semiotics
Lacan’s Psycho Analytic theories of Language
We will take a synchronic rather than diachronic approach
3. Martin Heidegger and Jacques Derrida
Being as Beingness (noun) and Being as a Verb
Derrida’s contestation of Logocentric thinking that privileges the present
Thinking Konkani privileges the Script (Nagrization) / Konkanichem nagrikoron (1987)
Konkankiche lipikoron is like putting music into physics of frequencies of the sound waves
Something beautiful dies in this effort. Music is lost in numbers
Konaniche girest diazachem moron
4. Bhaxea Shastracho Uzvad
Structural linguistics of Ferdinand Saussure : Langue/ Parole , Signified / Signified
Linguistics as a science of Language and its divisions: Phonology, Morphology,Syntax Semantics, Pragmatics
5. Konkani Phonology ( Sur Shastr )
Vowels and Consonants)
Phoneme ( smallest sound unit)
Lipi poilim sonic biology ( articulating sounds)
Soglle Konkani Ulovpi hea vatarant ekrup ( share a lot of sonic biology)
6. Konkani Morphology (Xhobdakoron Shastr)
Morphemes smallest meaningful unit ( words/ prefix, suffix)
Konkani phonemes make morphemes
Sollgle Konkani ulopi hea zagear ekrup ( shared-space) pun khaxelpon/ vegllepon dista
Nagri …Axillo …. Romi zata Aslo ( different edings/ suffix)
Script / lipi he dakoll korta ani ami hea sondorpant stuck zaleanv ( scripto-centric thinking)
Konkaniche nagri-koron makes konkani univocal and kills it plurivocality
7. Julia Kristeva’s Chora and Semiotics
Plato’s Chora
Kristeva uses Chora to refer to the womb of language
It is non-expressive totality of language
Here belongs the sonic biology, phonemes as well as morphemes etc.
Chora embraces Konkani before its orthographic representation in Scripts
Scripts can kill sonic vitality ( dekik .. Podda ( in tamil means get out, viti po in Malyalam is go home)
Podda articulated by me loses the vitality of vaxibor of konakni that I articulate with all my biology and Konkani culture ( Intonation)
Semiotics embraces the entire language with the culture and sonic biology ( Konkani in Goy, Goykar, Goykarponn)
Nagrization impoverishes Konkani and silences a large part of semiotic diversity
8. La Language of Lacan
Lacan teaches that desire works at the level of pre-language ( sonic biology and phonology… meaningless murmurs)
The child gets what it’s want by making sound and noises that do not have meaning
A boy become shanu , xhano the girl become may shana … gunu, buna, nunu, abu etc (affection through pet names)
Can Script be thought as sophisticated murmurs
Are Goans stuck at the level of identification of Konkani with A Script ? ( script is meaningless murmur that carry our desire?)
Has Script becomes site for the expression and satisfaction of our desire ?
Does nagrization reveal caste hegemony and desire of denial of recognition of the catholic minority ?
Does it indicates abjection of Kristeva / anal fixation of ‘Brahmins’ ( Indian Psychoanlyst)
9 . Towards language civility
Intertextual Linguistic Future / AI and transcription/ Internet and oral and vocal medium
Reclaiming plurivocal Konkani .. Romi Movement is in tune with plurivocal Konkani
Overcoming Dekonkanization that reduces sizable Konkani speakers a non-speakers
Promotion of dialogical space for multiple-Konkanis
10. Dev Borem Korum
Fr. Victor Ferrao
Borim , Goy.
