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Dr. C. (Corina) Andone

Faculty of Humanities
Capaciteitsgroep Taalbeheersing, Argumentatietheorie en Retorica
Photographer: onbekend

Visiting address
  • Spuistraat 134
Postal address
  • Postbus 1637
    1000 BP Amsterdam
  • Profile

    I am currently an Assistant Professor of Language and Communication and senior researcher at the Amsterdam Centre for Language and Communication (ACLC). I am leading the research group on ‘Persuasive discourse across domains’ (PERSUADE) whose main goal is to understand, explain and improve persuasive language in institutionalized communication (law, science, health, politics): https://aclc.uva.nl/content/research-groups/persuade/persuade.html. I am also Programme Director of the dual MA programme in Communication and Information Studies focusing on the informative and persuasive language use in institutionalized communication: https://www.uva.nl/en/programmes/dual-masters/communication-and-information/communication-and-information.html.

    I am particularly fascinated by the use of language for persuasive purposes in the political and legal contexts and their interdependency in policymaking. I am intrigued to understand the power of language to convince addressees in these contexts, why some communicative strategies work to convince and others not, what kind of effects argumentative strategies have, and why some facilitate communication while others impede it.

    In my interdisciplinary research I combine insights from EU law, politics and persuasive communication to explain the use of language in informal and formal practices of political accountability (e.g., political interviews, reports of the European Parliament's committees of investigation), the use of scientific arguments in policymaking (e.g., arguments from authority, arguments from ignorance, numerical arguments), and patterns of reasoning in EU binding and non-binding legal instruments (e.g., directives, EU recommendations and other soft law instruments). See key publications for details about my research and the qualitative methodologies I employ. 

    My teaching is closely related to my research interests: Stylistics (BA Dutch Language and Culture), Argumentation and communication in politics (MA Communication and Information Studies), Qualitative research methods (RMA Linguistics and Communication). 

    Key publications (available for download under 'Publications')

    Andone, C., & F. Coman-Kund. 2022. Persuasive rather than ‘binding’ EU soft law? An argumentative perspective on the European Commission’s soft law instruments in times of crisis. The Theory and Practice of Legislation, 10(1): 22-47. https://doi.org/10.1080/20508840.2022.2033942

    Andone, C. and J. Hernandez. 2022. On arguments from ignorance in policy-making. In Oswald, S. et al. (Eds.). The Pandemic of Argumentation (pp. 105-123), Dordrecht: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91017-4_6

    Andone, C. and J. A. Lomelí Hernández. 2019. Scientific arguments in policy-making. Journal of Argumentation in Context 8(2): 195-213. https://doi.org/10.1075/jaic.18040.and

    Coman-Kund, F. and C. Andone, C. 2019. European Commission’s soft law instruments: in between legally binding and non-binding norms. In Popelier, P. et al. (Eds.). Lawmaking in Multi-level Settings (pp. 173-197), Oxford: Hart and Nomos Publishing.

    Andone, C. and S. Greco. 2018. Evading the burden of proof in European Union soft law instruments: The case of Commission recommendations. International Journal for the Semiotics of Law 31(1): 79-99. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11196-017-9527-8

    Andone, C. (2016). Argumentative Patterns in the Political Domain: The Case of European Parliamentary Committees of Inquiry. Argumentation 30(1): 45-60. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10503-015-9372-4

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

  • Publications

    2023

    • Andone, C., & Coman-Kund, F. (2023). A legal-argumentative framework for persuasive EU soft law: The case of the European Commission’s recommendations. In P. L. Láncos , N. Xanthoulis, & L. Arroyo Jiménez (Eds.), The Legal Effects of EU Soft Law : Theory, Language and Sectoral Insights (pp. 142-174). (Elgar Studies in European Law and Policy). Edward Elgar Publishing. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781802208917.00013 [details]

    2022

    2019

    • Andone, C., & Lomeli Hernández, J. A. (2019). Scientific arguments in policy-making. Journal of Argumentation in Context, 8(2), 195-213. https://doi.org/10.1075/jaic.18040.and [details]
    • Coman-Kund, F., & Andone, C. (2019). European Commission's Soft Law Instruments: In-between Legally Binding and Non-binding Norms. In P. Popelier, H. Xanthaki, W. Robinson, J. Tiago Silveira, & F. Uhlmann (Eds.), Lawmaking in Multi-level Settings : Legislative Challenges in Federal Systems and the European Union (pp. 173-197). (International Association of Legislation (IAL); Vol. 18). Nomos. [details]
    • Renardel de Lavalette, K. Y., Andone, C., & Steen, G. J. (2019). Figurative analogies and how they are resisted in British Public Bill Committee debates. Metaphor and the Social World, 9(1), 107-130. https://doi.org/10.1075/msw.17027.lav [details]
    • Renardel de Lavalette, K. Y., Andone, C., & Steen, G. J. (2019). I did not say that the Government should be plundering anybody's savings: Resistance to metaphors expressing starting points in parliamentary debates. Journal of Language and Politics, 18(5), 718-738. https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.18066.ren [details]

    2018

    2017

    • Andone, C. (2017). Delimiting the burden of proof in political interviews. In F. H. van Eemeren, & W. Peng (Eds.), Contextualizing Pragma-Dialectics (pp. 255-268). John Benjamins. [details]
    • Andone, C. (2017). The role of pragmatic and majority argumentation in reports of European parliamentary committees of inquiry. In F. H. van Eemeren (Ed.), Prototypical Argumentative Patterns: Exploring the Relationship between Argumentative Discourse and Institutional Context (pp. 53-70). (Argumentation in Context; Vol. 11). John Benjamins Publishing Company. https://doi.org/10.1075/aic.11.04and [details]
    • Andone, C., & Coman-Kund, F. (2017). Argumentative patterns in the European Union directives: An effective tool to foster compliance by the Member States. Journal of Argumentation in Context, 6(1), 76-96. https://doi.org/10.1075/jaic.6.1.05and [details]

    2016

    2015

    • Andone, C. (2015). Engagement et non-engagement dans les appels à la majorité des politiciens. Argumentation & Analyse du Discours, 15, Article 2021. https://aad.revues.org/2021 [details]
    • Andone, C. (2015). Pragmatic Argumentation in European Practices of Political Accountability. Argumentation, 29(1), 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10503-014-9334-2 [details]
    • Andone, C. (2015). The burden of proof in dealing with political accountability. In R. Săftoiu, M-L. Neagu, & S. Măda (Eds.), Persuasive games in political and professional dialogue (pp. 19-38). (Dialogue studies; No. 26). John Benjamins. [details]

    2014

    2013

    • Andone, C. (2013). Argumentation in political interviews: analyzing and evaluating responses to accusations of inconsistency. (Argumentation in context; No. 5). John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/aic.5 [details]
    • Andone, C. (2013). Strategic manoeuvring in a political interview: the case of responding to an accusation of inconsistency. In A. Fetzer (Ed.), The pragmatics of political discourse: explorations across cultures (pp. 103-124). (Pragmatics and beyond. New series; No. 228). John Benjamins. [details]
    • Andone, C. (2013). Strategisch manoeuvreren in een politiek interview. In R. Boogaart, & H. Jansen (Eds.), Studies in taalbeheersing 4 (pp. 27-36). Van Gorcum. [details]

    2012

    • Andone, C. (2012). Strategische reacties op bechuldigingen van inconsistentie in een politiek interview. Tijdschrift voor Taalbeheersing, 34(2), 156-167. [details]
    • Andone, C. (2012). The reasonableness of confrontational strategic maneuvering in political interviews. In F. H. van Eemeren, & B. Garssen (Eds.), Exploring argumentative contexts (pp. 3-22). (Argumentation in context; No. 4). John Benjamins. [details]

    2011

    • Andone, C. (2011). The reasonableness of retracting a standpoint in a political interview. In F. H. van Eemeren, B. Garssen, D. Godden, & G. Mitchell (Eds.), Proceedings of the 7th Conference of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation (pp. 29-40). Rozenberg/Sic Sat. [details]
    • Andone, C., & Gâţă, A. (2011). Maneuvering strategically with dissociation in a political interview. In E. Feteris, B. Garssen, & F. Snoeck Henkemans (Eds.), Keeping in touch with pragma-dialectics: in honor of Frans H. van Eemeren (pp. 5-19). John Benjamins. [details]

    2010

    2009

    • Andone, C. (2009). Accusing someone of an inconsistency as a confrontational way of strategic manoeuvring. In F. H. van Eemeren (Ed.), Examining argumentation in context: fifteen studies on strategic maneuvering (pp. 153-169). (Argumentation in context; No. 1). John Benjamins. [details]
    • Andone, C. (2009). The analysis of confrontational strategic manoeuvres in a political interview. In J. Ritola (Ed.), Argument cultures: proceedings of OSSA '09 Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation. [details]

    2008

    • Andone, C. (2008). Characterizing accusations of inconsistency in an argumentative interaction: a speech act proposal. In F. H. van Eemeren, D. C. Williams, & I. Z. Zagar (Eds.), Understanding argumentation: work in progress (pp. 39-46). Sic Sat-Rozenberg. [details]
    • Andone, C. (2008). Comments on 'Legitimation and strategic maneuvering in the political field'. Argumentation, 22(3), 419-421. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10503-008-9087-x [details]
    • Andone, C. (2008). [Review of: D. Walton (2007) Dialog theory for critical argumentation]. Argumentation, 22(2), 291-296. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10503-008-9081-3 [details]

    2007

    • Andone, C. (2007). Manoeuvring strategically in responding to accusations of inconsistency in political interviews. University of Bucharest Review, 9(2), 21-27. [details]
    • Andone, C. (2007). The strategic use of antithesis in the argumentation stage of a critical discussion. In F. H. van Eemeren, J. A. Blair, C. A. Willard, & B. Garssen (Eds.), Proceedings of the Sixth Conference of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation (pp. 87-92). Amsterdam: Sic Sat.

    2006

    • Andone, C. (2006). Comments on 'Relevance of context-bound loci to topical potential in the argumentation stage'. Argumentation, 20(4), 541-543. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10503-007-9031-5
    • Andone, C. (2006). [Review of: R. Bauman (2006) A world of Others' Words. Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Intertextuality]. Journal of Pragmatics, 38(3), 464-468.

    2022

    2016

    2010

    • Gâţă, A., & Andone, C. (2010). Nota traducătoarelor. In F. H. van Eemeren, & R. Grootendorst (Eds.), Argumentare, comunicare şi sofisme: o perspectivă pragma-dialectică (pp. xii-xiii). Galati University Press. [details]

    2023

    2021

    2020

    • Andone, C. (2020). [Review of: C. Ilie, G. Garzone (2017) Argumentation across Communities of Practice : Multi-disciplinary perspectives]. Journal of Argumentation in Context, 9(3), 433-434. https://doi.org/10.1075/jaic.19037.and [details]

    2018

    2015

    2014

    2012

    2009

    Membership / relevant position

    • Andone, C. (2018). Argumentation and Language, Lugano.
    • Andone, C. (2018). Doctoral program in Applied Linguistics “Argumentation in professional spheres”, Lugano.
    • Andone, C. (2017). Review of applications for Marie Curie Fellowships, European Commission.
    • Andone, C. (2017). expert referee of two workshop proposals, NIAS-Lorentz program, Lorentz Centre, NIAS Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
    • Andone, C. (2016). Member of the assessment committee of Jacky Visser's dissertation 'A dialogue game for critical discussion', .
    • Andone, C. (2016). Member of the assessment committee of Ahmed Omar's dissertation 'Strategic maneuvering in supporting the feasibility of political change', Amsterdam.

    Talk / presentation

    • Andone, C. (speaker) (5-6-2023). Responsible data usage in argumentation studies, Lorentz Workshop: Qualitative Research on Argumentation, Leiden.
    • Andone, C. (speaker) (7-2-2023). Discussant, PhD Winter School on Corpus Data for the Analysis of Discourse, Interactions and Arguments.
    • Andone, C. (invited speaker) (7-10-2021). Arguing through quotations: the case of the European Commission press releases, Argumentation in European Politics.
    • Andone, C. (invited speaker) (31-8-2021). An argumentative perspective on EU legal acts, Training school: The rhetorical roots of argumentation. A legal experience.
    • Andone, C. (speaker) (4-6-2021). Comments on M. Talbi’s paper ‘The Persuasiveness of Narrative in Polarised Debate’, EUR-RANT PhD-workshop organized by the Dutch School of Philosophy .
    • Andone, C. (speaker) & Coman-Kund, F. (speaker) (14-4-2021). Persuasive rather than ‘binding’ EU soft law? An argumentative perspective on European Commission’s soft law instruments in times of crisis, Bindingness of EU soft law.
    • Andone, C. (invited speaker) & Coman-Kund, F. (invited speaker) (21-1-2021). Persuasive rather than ‘binding’ EU soft law? An argumentative perspective on the European Commission’s soft law instruments in times of crisis, Talking law in the EU: clear language, rule of law and legitimacy in the European legal space.
    • Andone, C. (speaker) & Hernandez, A. (speaker) (13-1-2021). On arguments from ignorance in policy-making, Citizens experts, and institutions: empirical analyses of public policy argumentation.
    • Andone, C. (invited speaker) (18-12-2020). Organizational communication: the case of the European Commission, Master Linguistics.
    • Andone, C. (invited speaker) (19-10-2020). Legal reasoning, Master International and European Law.
    • Andone, C. (speaker), Renardel de Lavalette, K. (speaker) & Steen, G. (speaker) (18-6-2020). Uses and functions of figurative analogy arguments in British parliamentary debates, Researching and Applying Metaphor Conference.
    • Andone, C. (speaker) (2020). Argumentative style, Argumentative style, Leiden.
    • Andone, C. (speaker) (10-10-2019). Argumentation as a sword and a shield: the case of European Commission soft law instruments, Public arguments in the wild: analysing concrete instances of public argument and practices for organising public deliberation, Vilnius.
    • Renardel de Lavalette, K. (speaker), Andone, C. (speaker) & Steen, G. (speaker) (24-6-2019). Figurative analogy argumentation in British Public Bill Committee debates, European Conference in Argumentation, Groningen.
    • Renardel de Lavalette, K. (speaker), Andone, C. (speaker) & Steen, G. (speaker) (16-5-2019). Figurative analogy argumentation in British Public Bill Committee debates, The 7th Researching and Applying Metaphor seminar, Liege.
    • Andone, C. (speaker) (29-4-2019). Insights for argumentative public policy analysis: EU soft law instruments as a case in point, Leaders’ meeting, Amsterdam.
    • Andone, C. (speaker) (18-3-2019). Methods for data use for public policy, Kick-off meeting COST Action APPLY, Lisbon.
    • Andone, C. (speaker) (14-2-2019). Argumentation in EU legislation, Course for PhD-researchers in International and EU law, Trento.
    • Renardel de Lavalette, K. Y. (speaker), Andone, C. (speaker) & Steen, G. (speaker) (7-2018). Countering metaphors expressing starting points in political debates, The 9th Conference of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation, Amsterdam.
    • Andone, C. (speaker) & Greco , S. (speaker) (7-2-2018). Evading the burden of proof for persuasive prusposes: the case of Commission recommendations, Argumentation & language, Lugano.
    • Renardel de Lavalette, K. (speaker), Andone, C. (speaker) & Steen, G. (speaker) (7-2-2018). Countering figurative analogies in British Public Bill Committee debates, ARGAGE 2018 Conference, Lugano.
    • Andone, C. (speaker) (2018). Between recommending and imposing: Arguing for a course of action in European Union soft and hard law, The 9th Conference of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation, Amsterdam.
    • Andone, C. (speaker) & Coman-Kund, F. (speaker) (2018). Poster on The expression of obligation in EU law-making: blurring the line between hard and soft law?, Conference on Law-Making in multi-level settings: federalism, Europe, and beyond, Antwerp.
    • Andone, C. (keynote speaker) & Greco , S. (keynote speaker) (2018). Per un'analisi argomentativa dell'onere della prova nelle reccomandazioni dell'Unione Europea, Per un'analisi argomentativa dell'onere della prova nelle reccomandazioni dell'Unione Europea, Trento.
    • Renardel de Lavalette, K. Y. (speaker), Andone, C. (speaker) & Steen, G. (speaker) (2018). Countering metaphors expressing starting points in political debates, The 12th International conference on researching and applying metaphor, Hong Kong.
    • Renardel de Lavalette, K. Y. (speaker), Andone, C. (speaker) & Steen, G. J. (speaker) (31-8-2017). Resistance to metaphor in British Public Bill Committee Debates, Metaphor Festival, Amsterdam.
    • Andone, C. (speaker) (20-6-2017). Argumentative content and design in Council recommendations, Second European Conference in Argumentation, Fribourg.
    • Andone, C. (speaker) (19-1-2017). Legal-political argumentation: past efforts, current research and future directions, Università della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano.
    • Andone, C. (speaker) & Coman-Kund, F. (speaker) (2-12-2016). The importance of argument-strength in policy-making, Argument strength, Bochum.
    • Andone, C. (speaker) & Coman-Kund, F. (speaker) (15-9-2016). Argumentation in the European Union's directives, Argumentation and policy-making, Leiden.
    • Andone, C. (invited speaker) (22-10-2015). Majority appeals in political accountability practices, The 1st Sino-Dutch Workshop on pragma-dialectics, Zheijiang, China.
    • Andone, C. (speaker) (9-9-2015). Commitment and non-commitment in the politicians’ appeals to the majority, Argumentation and language, Lausanne, Switzerland.
    • Andone, C. (invited speaker) (21-5-2015). Argumentative patterns in the political domain: the case of European parliamentary committees of inquiry, Workshop on Argumentation in Political Discourse, Leiden.
    • Andone, C. (invited speaker) (3-4-2015). Analysing and evaluating political arguments in the media, Séminaire de recherche Communication et politique, CNRS, Paris.
    • Andone, C. (invited speaker) (16-1-2015). Pragmatic arguments in political discourse, Amsterdam-Lugano workshop on argumentation, Lugano, Switzerland.
    • Andone, C. (speaker) (30-5-2008). Comments on F.J.Kauffeld's Paper ''Some rhetorical complications in the Arguer's Strategic Manoeuvring in Argumentative Confrontation, 4th NWO conference ''Stylistic Characteristics of Strategic Manoeuvring in argumentative confrontations'', University of Amsterdam.
    • Andone, C. (speaker) (11-4-2008). General Soundness Conditions for manoeuvring strategically by retracting a standpoint, 2nd international Conference on Argumentation, Rhetoric, Debate and the Pedagogy of Empowerment, University of Ljubljana.
    • Andone, C. (speaker) (14-2-2008). Manoeuvring strategically by retracting a standpoint in what can be reconstructed as the confrontation stage of a critical discussion: general soundness conditions, Conference: Strategies in Argumentation, Groningen.
    • Andone, C. (speaker) (30-11-2007). Retraction of a standpoint in political interviews, Presentation at the Amsterdam-Lugano Colloquium, Universita della Svizzera Italiana.
    • Andone, C. (speaker) (29-10-2007). Comments on I. Iectu-Fairclough's "Legitimation and strategic manoeuvring in the political field", Presentation at the 3rd NWO Conference, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam.
    • Andone, C. (speaker) (9-7-2007). Accusations of inconsistency in political interviews, Presentation at the 10th International Pragmatics Conference, Gothenburg.
    • Andone, C. (speaker) (1-6-2007). Consecutive consequences of the illocutionary act of accusation of inconsistency, Presentation at the Annual Conference of the English Department of the University of Bucharest, Bucharest.
    • Andone, C. (speaker) (25-5-2007). Accusing someone of an inconsistency: a way of manoeuvring strategically', Presentation at the 2nd NWO Conference, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam.

    Others

    • Andone, C. (organiser), Doury, M. (organiser), Greco, S. (organiser), Hannken-Illjes, K. (organiser) & Reijven, M. (organiser) (5-6-2023 - 9-6-2023). Lorentz Workshop: Qualitative Research on Argumentation, Leiden (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Andone, C. (visiting researcher) (27-2-2023 - 3-3-2023). Université Paris-Descartes (visiting an external institution).
    • Andone, C. (visiting researcher) (2-2023). Université Paris-Descartes (visiting an external institution).
    • Andone, C. (participant) (2023). Lorentz Workshop: Qualitative Research on Argumentation, Leiden (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Andone, C. (participant) (2023). Winter School on Corpus Data for the Analysis of Discourse, Interactions and Arguments (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Andone, C. (participant) (2023). 10th Conference of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Andone, C. (participant) (2023). 10th Conference of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Andone, C. (member of programme committee) (10-11-2021 - 12-11-2021). ARGAGE: Argumentation and Language (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Andone, C. (organiser) & Garssen, B. (organiser) (7-10-2021). Argumentation in European Politics (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Andone, C. (visiting researcher) (6-9-2021 - 18-9-2021). University of Trento (visiting an external institution).
    • Andone, C. (visiting researcher) (9-2021). Trento University (visiting an external institution).
    • Andone, C. (examiner) (6-2021). examiner PhD defense committee (examination).
    • Andone, C. (examiner) (2021). AIAS-COFUND II fellowships 2021 (examination).
    • Leone, C. (organiser), van Domselaar, I. (organiser), van Duin, A. (organiser) & Andone, C. (organiser) (2021). Talking law in the EU: clear language, rule of law and legitimacy in the European legal space (organising a conference, workshop, ...). https://aces.uva.nl/content/events/events/2021/01/talking-law-in-the-eu.html
    • Andone, C. (examiner) (2020). expert reviewer NWO (examination).
    • Andone, C. (examiner) (2020). expert reviewer AIHR (examination).
    • Andone, C. (examiner) (2020 - 2021). Open competition (examination).
    • Andone, C. (participant) & Lomeli Hernández, J. (participant) (24-6-2019 - 27-6-2019). European Conference in Argumentation, Groningen (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Andone, C. (visiting researcher) (2-2019). Trento University (visiting an external institution).
    • Andone, C. (organiser) (2018). International Summer School in Argumentation in Context, Amsterdam (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Andone, C. (examiner) (2018). expert reviewer of postdoctoral Marie Curie individual fellowships, European Commission (examination).
    • Andone, C. (host) (2018). Vahid Niamadpour (hosting a visitor).
    • Andone, C. (participant) (2018). International Summer School in Argumentation in Context, Amsterdam (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Andone, C. (host) (1-11-2017 - 31-3-2018). Vahid Niamadpour (hosting a visitor).
    • Andone, C. (visiting researcher) (2-2017 - 3-2017). USI - University of Lugano (visiting an external institution).
    • Andone, C. (visiting researcher) (1-2017 - 3-2017). Università della Svizzera Italiana (visiting an external institution).
    • Andone, C. (visiting researcher) (4-11-2016 - 5-11-2016). University of Brasov (visiting an external institution).
    • Andone, C. (visiting researcher) (11-2016). University of Brasov (visiting an external institution).
    • Andone, C. (examiner) (15-9-2016). Expert reviewer for a postdoctoral grant application on request of Israel Science Fundation (examination).
    • Andone, C. (examiner) (1-1-2016 - 31-12-2016). review manuscript articles (examination).
    • Andone, C. (host) (1-2-2015 - 1-2-2016). Yeliz Demir (hosting a visitor).
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