Helena Tužinská
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 72783 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Helena Tužinská |
| PRENOMES | Helena |
| SOBRENOME | Tužinská |
| ASSINATURA | TUŽINSKÁ H |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Comenius University Bratislava |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1135-3007 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 9 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 4 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 9 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2017 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Moonstruck for a Fortnight
This article integrates structuralist methodology, evolutionary linguistics and recent developments in paleogenetics to reinterpret a wondertale, The Three Enchanted Princes. The narrative contrasts darkness with light, wilderness with cultivation and bloodthirsty animality with civilized human form, concluding by celebrating the transition to agriculture, purposeful property management and wedlock. The story’s solar and patriarchal stance frames…
Human Speech” as a Keyword
This article examines how the emic keyword “human speech” circulates among actors in the asylum procedure and how its situated meanings can inform the design of applied anthropological interventions. Building on research into interpreters’ positionality, institutional scripting, and communicative asymmetries, the analysis foregrounds what “human speech” indexes in interactional and institutional contexts. I argue that positioning linguistic clari…
The Communicative Space
This article explores the state's control not only at national borders but also at the boundaries of language, culture-specific terms and legal jargon, by scrutinising how court participants are both listened to and interpreted in legal proceedings. Based on participant observation in Slovakian asylum court hearings and pre- and post-trial ethnographic interviews with asylum applicants, attorneys, interpreters and state officials, this study exam…
Korona neexistuje!“ humor ako komunikačná stratégia v čase krízy
The study provides an ethnographic probe into the lives of the members of the PCR test team during the pandemic of COVID-19. The aim is to show the use of humour as a communication strategy in times of crisis from the perspective of symbolic anthropology and ethnography of communication, especially theories of danger and joke. The approach of state health institutions have often failed to meet the needs of society, affecting patients' access to i…
Interpreters as cultural experts? Asylum practices in Slovakia
Cultural expertise can be a meaningful part of judicial proceedings, including asylum appeals. In countries where it is not yet common, the need to address questions of cultural identity might be communicated indirectly through interpreters. As a result, interpreters implicitly and explicitly respond to co-producing the Other. This paper uses empirical data from long-term ethnographic research on interpreting asylum hearings to trace their instit…
Metaphors taken for granted. Matt J. Rossano
recognised as a scholar in the evolutionary study of religion. In his new book, Rossano offers a recapitulation of evolutionary anthropological arguments and claims that human ritual had emerged to support psychological resources centred around social capital. Moreover, he takes the reader from the oldest archaeological sites from South Africa to Greece, to rituals in Russia, including Soviet ones, concluding with the cults of Native Americans. I…
Doing things with questions. Interpreting in asylum settings
The interpreter has the demanding task of “not creating a contradiction” by employing an identical concept in a different context. The classifications of the asylum applicant encounter the institutionally determined limits. Reliable verification of the applicant’s credibility is, however, dependent on knowledge of his/her local context and demands additional questioning. In this process, a denial of interlingual and intralingual complexity may be…
Akože, nejaký
In this study, I examine the linguistic means that weaken the effect of an asylum applicant's speech during court proceedings: the overuse of selected words implying doubt, uncertainty, assumption, or presumption signal imbalance. I analyse how the hegemonic practices of consensus are reflected in the tolerance of the interpreter's inconspicuous mistakes: the use of the third person instead of the first, the use of passive instead of active voice…
Anthropology as Necessary Unlearning. Examples from Camps, Courts, Schools and Businesses
This paper explores the problems which arise when people attempt to communicate across cultural boundaries.I draw on my fieldwork experience in various settings in Eastern and Central Europe -camps, courts, schools and businesses -where I found that communication works best when trust is established, and that the necessary step to fulfil this condition was to learn how to unlearn deeply rooted assumptions on both sides.The paper begins with a dis…
Anthropology as Necessary Unlearning. Examples from Camps, Courts, Schools and Businesses
This paper explores the problems which arise when people attempt to communicate across cultural boundaries.I draw on my fieldwork experience in various settings in Eastern and Central Europe -camps, courts, schools and businesses -where I found that communication works best when trust is established, and that the necessary step to fulfil this condition was to learn how to unlearn deeply rooted assumptions on both sides.The paper begins with a dis…
Interpreters as cultural experts? Asylum practices in Slovakia
Cultural expertise can be a meaningful part of judicial proceedings, including asylum appeals. In countries where it is not yet common, the need to address questions of cultural identity might be communicated indirectly through interpreters. As a result, interpreters implicitly and explicitly respond to co-producing the Other. This paper uses empirical data from long-term ethnographic research on interpreting asylum hearings to trace their instit…
Doing things with questions. Interpreting in asylum settings
The interpreter has the demanding task of “not creating a contradiction” by employing an identical concept in a different context. The classifications of the asylum applicant encounter the institutionally determined limits. Reliable verification of the applicant’s credibility is, however, dependent on knowledge of his/her local context and demands additional questioning. In this process, a denial of interlingual and intralingual complexity may be…
Anthropology as Necessary Unlearning. Examples from Camps, Courts, Schools and Businesses
This paper explores the problems which arise when people attempt to communicate across cultural boundaries.I draw on my fieldwork experience in various settings in Eastern and Central Europe -camps, courts, schools and businesses -where I found that communication works best when trust is established, and that the necessary step to fulfil this condition was to learn how to unlearn deeply rooted assumptions on both sides.The paper begins with a dis…
Akože, nejaký
In this study, I examine the linguistic means that weaken the effect of an asylum applicant's speech during court proceedings: the overuse of selected words implying doubt, uncertainty, assumption, or presumption signal imbalance. I analyse how the hegemonic practices of consensus are reflected in the tolerance of the interpreter's inconspicuous mistakes: the use of the third person instead of the first, the use of passive instead of active voice…
Doing things with questions. Interpreting in asylum settings
The interpreter has the demanding task of “not creating a contradiction” by employing an identical concept in a different context. The classifications of the asylum applicant encounter the institutionally determined limits. Reliable verification of the applicant’s credibility is, however, dependent on knowledge of his/her local context and demands additional questioning. In this process, a denial of interlingual and intralingual complexity may be…
Metaphors taken for granted. Matt J. Rossano
recognised as a scholar in the evolutionary study of religion. In his new book, Rossano offers a recapitulation of evolutionary anthropological arguments and claims that human ritual had emerged to support psychological resources centred around social capital. Moreover, he takes the reader from the oldest archaeological sites from South Africa to Greece, to rituals in Russia, including Soviet ones, concluding with the cults of Native Americans. I…
Korona neexistuje!“ humor ako komunikačná stratégia v čase krízy
The study provides an ethnographic probe into the lives of the members of the PCR test team during the pandemic of COVID-19. The aim is to show the use of humour as a communication strategy in times of crisis from the perspective of symbolic anthropology and ethnography of communication, especially theories of danger and joke. The approach of state health institutions have often failed to meet the needs of society, affecting patients' access to i…
Interpreters as cultural experts? Asylum practices in Slovakia
Cultural expertise can be a meaningful part of judicial proceedings, including asylum appeals. In countries where it is not yet common, the need to address questions of cultural identity might be communicated indirectly through interpreters. As a result, interpreters implicitly and explicitly respond to co-producing the Other. This paper uses empirical data from long-term ethnographic research on interpreting asylum hearings to trace their instit…
The Communicative Space
This article explores the state's control not only at national borders but also at the boundaries of language, culture-specific terms and legal jargon, by scrutinising how court participants are both listened to and interpreted in legal proceedings. Based on participant observation in Slovakian asylum court hearings and pre- and post-trial ethnographic interviews with asylum applicants, attorneys, interpreters and state officials, this study exam…
Human Speech” as a Keyword
This article examines how the emic keyword “human speech” circulates among actors in the asylum procedure and how its situated meanings can inform the design of applied anthropological interventions. Building on research into interpreters’ positionality, institutional scripting, and communicative asymmetries, the analysis foregrounds what “human speech” indexes in interactional and institutional contexts. I argue that positioning linguistic clari…
Moonstruck for a Fortnight
This article integrates structuralist methodology, evolutionary linguistics and recent developments in paleogenetics to reinterpret a wondertale, The Three Enchanted Princes. The narrative contrasts darkness with light, wilderness with cultivation and bloodthirsty animality with civilized human form, concluding by celebrating the transition to agriculture, purposeful property management and wedlock. The story’s solar and patriarchal stance frames…
Sociology (5 obras) · Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare (4 obras) · Political science (4 obras) · Anthropology (3 obras) · Ethnography (3 obras) · Law (3 obras) · Law (3 obras) · Linguistics (3 obras) · Philosophy (3 obras) · Psychology (3 obras)