dr. A.F. (Francisca) Snoeck Henkemans - University of Amsterdam

A. Francisca Snoeck Henkemans, Associate Professor in the Department of Speech Communication, Argumentation Theory and Rhetoric of the Faculty of Humanities (UvA), coordinates the Research Master Rhetoric, Argumentation Theory and Philosophy. In 1992, she defended her Phd thesis Analysing Complex Argumentation, in which she developed a dialogical model of how various argumentation structures may come intobeing in a discussion.
Snoeck Henkemans is a specialist in the field of linguistic characteristics of argumentation. In 2007 she published a monograph on argumentative indicators in discourse, together with Frans van Eemeren and Peter Houtlosser. At present her research focuses on the role of stylistic devices such as tropes and figures in arguers’ strategic manoeuverings, that is in their attempt to balance their dialectical with their rhetorical aims. Snoeck Henkemans is a member of the editorial board of one of the leading journals in the field, Informal Logic, and of the Dutch Journal of Speech Communication (Tijdschrift voor Taalbeheersing) and is a regular referee for the journal Argumentation.

Key publications:

Snoeck Henkemans, A. Francisca (2009). The contribution of praeteritio to arguers’ confrontational strategic manoeuvres. In: F.H. van Eemeren (Ed.), Examining Argumentation in Context; Fifteen studies on strategic maneuvering. (pp. 241-255). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Snoeck Henkemans, A. Francisca (2008) (with F.H. van Eemeren & P. Houtlosser).
Dialectical profiles and indicators of argumentative moves. Journal of Pragmatics 40, 475-493.

Snoeck Henkemans, A. Francisca (2007) (with F. H. van Eemeren & P. Houtlosser). Argumentative Indicators in Discourse. A Pragma-Dialectical Study. Dordrecht: Springer.

Snoeck Henkemans, A. Francisca (2007). Manoeuvering strategically with rhetorical questions. In: F.H. van Eemeren et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 6th conference of the international society for the study of argumentation. (pp 1309-1313). Amsterdam: Sic Sat.

Snoeck Henkemans, A. Francisca (2001). Argumentation, explanation and causality: an exploration of current linguistic approaches to textual relations. In: T. Sanders, J. Schilperoord & W. Spooren (eds.), Text Representation: Linguistic and Psycholinguistic Aspects (pp. 231-246). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins.

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