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100			_aTužinská, Helena _958059
245			_aThe communicative space: Painting the evidence and plausibility in asylum court hearings
260			_aSocial and Legal Studies
300			_a34(6), Dec, 2025: p.832-855
520			_aThis 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 examines: (1) how ‘communicative space’ is established and negotiated in asylum court hearings; (2) how this space relates to the plausibility during evidence-making and (3) how Diego Velázquez's painting Las Meninas offers explanatory power for understanding dynamics in legal settings. By drawing on the work of ethnographers, philosophers, socio-legal and art theorists, this article provides new insights into the role of communicative space in plausibility assessments.- Reproduced https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/09646639241307604
650			_aAsylum, Court, Communication, Justice, Plausibility, Refugee. _958060
773			_aSocial and Legal Studies
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