Doing things with questions. Interpreting in asylum settings
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6015895 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Helena Tužinská (0000-0003-1135-3007, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 103 |
| Pages | 81-81 |
| Publication date | 2019-12-13 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | LUD Organ Polskiego Towarzystwa Ludoznawczego i Komitetu Nauk Etnologicznych PAN (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0076-1435 • E-ISSN: 2719-8057 |
| Publisher | Uniwersytet Mikolaja Kopernika/Nicolaus Copernicus University (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.12775/lud103.2019.05 |
| OpenAlex | W3106905187 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 20 |
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 a source of invisible injustice (Spotti 2019:87-88). Both interpreting and interpretation is thus an inseparable part of the process in which police officers, decision-makers and judges, paraphrasing John L. Austin and John Searle, “do things with questions”. The author applies this interpretive framework to data from ethnographic research, which was conducted in Bratislava, Slovakia, in 2017-19, on interpreting for asylum applicants in the institutional settings. She elucidates the diversity of the standpoints - of refugees, court and ad hoc interpreters, representatives of the foreign police and of the migration office, as well as legal representatives from civic associations, referencing to relevant findings in linguistic and legal anthropology. In this article Helena Tužinská proposes that: (1) the discrepancies in the reports are conditioned by the context of interpreting, (2) participants “do things with questions”, and (3) inter-cultural interpretation can be a speech act
Context (archaeology · Contradiction · Credibility · Denial · Epistemology · Ethnography · Injustice · Interpretation (philosophy · Interpreter · Linguistics · Political science · Refugee · Sociology · Anthropology · Computer Science · History · Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Law · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity · Psychology · Social Psychology
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“It’s All About Naming Things Right”
Anthropology and Expertise in the Asylum Courts
The Ethnography of Communication
The Bilingual Mind
Ethnographic Interview
Coerced Confessions
Crosstalk 2.0
Asylum Determination in Europe
The bilingual mind and what it tells us about language and thought
Investigating Narrative Inequality
Troubled Communication
Troubled Communication
Narratives as Cultural Tools in Sociocultural Analysis
Anthropology as Necessary Unlearning. Examples from Camps, Courts, Schools and Businesses
Cultural evidence in courts of law
Speech Acts
Learning How to Ask
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |