Doctoral Student in Anthropology and American Culture
About
I am interested in the sociolinguistics of language separatism, in specific the fragmentation of Serbo-Croatian into four new standard languages: Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, and Montenegrin. As part of this research I focus on the role of the Ex-Yugoslav diaspora in negotiations of ethnonational and ethnoreligious identities that are at part and parcel of these new linguistic standards. In other words, I am trying to understand why people insists that they are speaking Bosnian and not Serbian or Croatian for instance.
Research interests: Semiotics, language separatism, language ideologies, linguistic purism, migration, race and ethnicity, diasporas
