Vuk Vukotić
Biographic Data
| ID | 806534 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vuk Vukotić |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vuk |
| FAMILY NAME | Vukotić |
| SIGNATURE | VUKOTIĆ V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vilnius University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6956-6868 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The ‘whence’ of the nation: Suspension of homogenous time in nationalist thought
This article argues that Anderson’s idea of the national ‘meanwhile’ also requires a ‘whence’ in a temporal meaning to make nations imaginable in the capitalist temporal regime. Nationalism’s power lies in its ability to blur the boundaries between past and present by presenting national artefacts as quasi-eternal or immune to change. This point is illustrated via two case studies on ongoing linguistic controversies (Balto-Slavic and Croato-Serbi…
The Verisimilitude of Nationalist Thought: The Case of Serbian Dialectology
This paper argues for conceptualizing nationalism as a rationalist project that seeks to understand the world in all its complexity. What I term “nationalist thought,” i.e., the cognitive component of nationalism, is not just a biased worldview or one of many “perspectives on the world” but has actively created much of what is accepted to be true in both academic and everyday contexts. I argue that nationalist thought achieves this quality of ver…
Grief Activism and Solidarity with Migrants Along the EU's Eastern Migratory Route
The EU’s external border restricts the movement of unwanted individuals and subjects them to necropolitical governance. Such governance is sustained by epistemic and affective borders, determining whose lives and deaths are deemed meaningful. Maurice Stierl has proposed the concept of ‘grief activism’ as a form of transformative politics that can subvert such borders. In this paper, we further develop this framework in the specific context of Eas…
Central South Slavic Linguistic Taxonomies and the Language/Dialect Dichotomy: Rhetorical Strategies and Faulty Epistemologies
This article analyzes the epistemology of the language/dialect (L/D) dichotomy. The L/D dichotomy gives rise to disputes between "splitters", who want to split the speech of a given region into more than one "language", and "lumpers", who view the region as speaking one "language" albeit with diverse "dialects". While numerous linguists have declared the L/D dichotomy theoretically meaningless, thus taking an "agnostic" approach, linguists intere…
Are languages and dialects inventions of nationalism? On the problem of totalising metalanguage
Scholars of nationalism generally acknowledge that what counts as ‘a language’ and what as ‘a dialect’ is determined by historical and political circumstance, that both notions are idealisations of linguistic practice rather than objective entities and that the reality of language is fuzzy and complex. However, they nevertheless continue to talk about (and analyse) ‘linguistic entities’ in the same way nationalists do: as homogenous, closed syste…
On the Discursive Construction of Dialectal Varieties: The Case of Central South Slavic ‘Supradialects’
This paper critically examines the construction of ‘supradialects’ (BCMS narječje) in Central South Slavic (CSS) dialectology. The concept is unique because it is usually placed in the hierarchy of varieties above ‘dialect’ and below ‘language’, also because supradialects are indicated as the ‘dialectal bases’ of Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin and Serbian (BCMS) languages (and their predecessor, Serbo-Croatian). Despite that, the definition of su…
Social engineers and myth-busters: A comparative research on Lithuanian, Norwegian and Serbian language experts
This article compares the language ideologies of language experts (both academic and non-academic) in online news media in Lithuania, Norway and Serbia. The results will reveal that language is understood in diametrically opposed ways amongst Lithuanian and Serbian academic experts on the one, and Norwegian academic experts on the other hand. Lithuanian and Serbian academic experts are influenced by modernist ideas of language as a single, homoge…
“A Language Expert Protects True Values and National Interests”: A Look Into the Construction of Linguistic Expertise in the Metalinguistic Discourses in Lithuania and Serbia
Linguists, language teachers and all other types of language experts are of key importance in the dissemination of beliefs about language, today referred to in literature as language ideologies (Rumsey, 1990). In spite of the great deal of attention given to language experts in sociolinguistic literature, very little research has looked into how these experts and their expertise is perceived amongst non - experts. A study of the perception of exp…
What does “language” mean for its users? Constructing a theoretical model of a notion of language in the public space
Research into language ideologies is a fast growing field of research, especially within its critical paradigm, highlighting reproductions of dominant and often repressive ideologies about language (racism, sexism, nationalism, etc.). On the other hand, the other, cognitive paradigm has contributed to the field of language ideology by way of closer insights into the world of the speaker, providing a more subtle understanding of the cognitive proc…
Conflicting notions of language in metalinguistic discourses in Lithuania, Norway and Serbia
The article analyses the notions of language and their elements in metalinguistic comments taken from comment sections in online news portals from Lithuania, Norway and Serbia. The aim is to find and categorize different types of language notions. The goals were to analyse the elements of the notions of language and categorize them according to the metaphors found in the discourse. The empirical data was taken from comments under three news (thre…
Are languages and dialects inventions of nationalism? On the problem of totalising metalanguage
Scholars of nationalism generally acknowledge that what counts as ‘a language’ and what as ‘a dialect’ is determined by historical and political circumstance, that both notions are idealisations of linguistic practice rather than objective entities and that the reality of language is fuzzy and complex. However, they nevertheless continue to talk about (and analyse) ‘linguistic entities’ in the same way nationalists do: as homogenous, closed syste…
Central South Slavic Linguistic Taxonomies and the Language/Dialect Dichotomy: Rhetorical Strategies and Faulty Epistemologies
This article analyzes the epistemology of the language/dialect (L/D) dichotomy. The L/D dichotomy gives rise to disputes between "splitters", who want to split the speech of a given region into more than one "language", and "lumpers", who view the region as speaking one "language" albeit with diverse "dialects". While numerous linguists have declared the L/D dichotomy theoretically meaningless, thus taking an "agnostic" approach, linguists intere…
Conflicting notions of language in metalinguistic discourses in Lithuania, Norway and Serbia
The article analyses the notions of language and their elements in metalinguistic comments taken from comment sections in online news portals from Lithuania, Norway and Serbia. The aim is to find and categorize different types of language notions. The goals were to analyse the elements of the notions of language and categorize them according to the metaphors found in the discourse. The empirical data was taken from comments under three news (thre…
“A Language Expert Protects True Values and National Interests”: A Look Into the Construction of Linguistic Expertise in the Metalinguistic Discourses in Lithuania and Serbia
Linguists, language teachers and all other types of language experts are of key importance in the dissemination of beliefs about language, today referred to in literature as language ideologies (Rumsey, 1990). In spite of the great deal of attention given to language experts in sociolinguistic literature, very little research has looked into how these experts and their expertise is perceived amongst non - experts. A study of the perception of exp…
What does “language” mean for its users? Constructing a theoretical model of a notion of language in the public space
Research into language ideologies is a fast growing field of research, especially within its critical paradigm, highlighting reproductions of dominant and often repressive ideologies about language (racism, sexism, nationalism, etc.). On the other hand, the other, cognitive paradigm has contributed to the field of language ideology by way of closer insights into the world of the speaker, providing a more subtle understanding of the cognitive proc…
Social engineers and myth-busters: A comparative research on Lithuanian, Norwegian and Serbian language experts
This article compares the language ideologies of language experts (both academic and non-academic) in online news media in Lithuania, Norway and Serbia. The results will reveal that language is understood in diametrically opposed ways amongst Lithuanian and Serbian academic experts on the one, and Norwegian academic experts on the other hand. Lithuanian and Serbian academic experts are influenced by modernist ideas of language as a single, homoge…
On the Discursive Construction of Dialectal Varieties: The Case of Central South Slavic ‘Supradialects’
This paper critically examines the construction of ‘supradialects’ (BCMS narječje) in Central South Slavic (CSS) dialectology. The concept is unique because it is usually placed in the hierarchy of varieties above ‘dialect’ and below ‘language’, also because supradialects are indicated as the ‘dialectal bases’ of Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin and Serbian (BCMS) languages (and their predecessor, Serbo-Croatian). Despite that, the definition of su…
Are languages and dialects inventions of nationalism? On the problem of totalising metalanguage
Scholars of nationalism generally acknowledge that what counts as ‘a language’ and what as ‘a dialect’ is determined by historical and political circumstance, that both notions are idealisations of linguistic practice rather than objective entities and that the reality of language is fuzzy and complex. However, they nevertheless continue to talk about (and analyse) ‘linguistic entities’ in the same way nationalists do: as homogenous, closed syste…
Grief Activism and Solidarity with Migrants Along the EU's Eastern Migratory Route
The EU’s external border restricts the movement of unwanted individuals and subjects them to necropolitical governance. Such governance is sustained by epistemic and affective borders, determining whose lives and deaths are deemed meaningful. Maurice Stierl has proposed the concept of ‘grief activism’ as a form of transformative politics that can subvert such borders. In this paper, we further develop this framework in the specific context of Eas…
Central South Slavic Linguistic Taxonomies and the Language/Dialect Dichotomy: Rhetorical Strategies and Faulty Epistemologies
This article analyzes the epistemology of the language/dialect (L/D) dichotomy. The L/D dichotomy gives rise to disputes between "splitters", who want to split the speech of a given region into more than one "language", and "lumpers", who view the region as speaking one "language" albeit with diverse "dialects". While numerous linguists have declared the L/D dichotomy theoretically meaningless, thus taking an "agnostic" approach, linguists intere…
The ‘whence’ of the nation: Suspension of homogenous time in nationalist thought
This article argues that Anderson’s idea of the national ‘meanwhile’ also requires a ‘whence’ in a temporal meaning to make nations imaginable in the capitalist temporal regime. Nationalism’s power lies in its ability to blur the boundaries between past and present by presenting national artefacts as quasi-eternal or immune to change. This point is illustrated via two case studies on ongoing linguistic controversies (Balto-Slavic and Croato-Serbi…
The Verisimilitude of Nationalist Thought: The Case of Serbian Dialectology
This paper argues for conceptualizing nationalism as a rationalist project that seeks to understand the world in all its complexity. What I term “nationalist thought,” i.e., the cognitive component of nationalism, is not just a biased worldview or one of many “perspectives on the world” but has actively created much of what is accepted to be true in both academic and everyday contexts. I argue that nationalist thought achieves this quality of ver…
Linguistics (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity (6 works) · Linguistic research and analysis (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · History (3 works) · Metalanguage (3 works) · Nationalism (3 works) · Politics (3 works)