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Current position

 

2011-:                    Assistant Professor of Speech Communication, Argumentation Theory and Rhetoric

 

 

Education

 

2010:                     PhD in the humanities: argumentation theory

                               University of Amsterdam

                               Title of the PhD dissertation: Maneuvering  strategically in a political interview. Analyzing and evaluating responses to an accusation of inconsistency

                                                       

                               Promotor: prof. dr. Frans H. van Eemeren; Co-promotor: dr. A. Francisca Snoeck Henkemans

 

2004-2005:          Research Master Logic, Language and Argumentation (cum laude)

                               University of Amsterdam

 

 

Research interests

 

Political interviews, political accountability, burden of proof, analysis and evaluation of argumentative discourse

 

 

 

Short description of research interests

 

In her PhD dissertation, Andone provided an argumentative explanation for the way in which politicians react in political interviews to the accusation that they have taken a standpoint which is inconsistent with a standpoint they advanced before. In addition to analyzing the politicians’responses for their strategic function, Andone formulated soundness conditions for assessing the reasonableness of the politicians’ responses to an accusation of inconsistency.

 

In her current research, Andone is interested in the strategic maneuvering with the burden of proof in political accountability. She analyzes how the burden of proof is met most expediently and judges the quality of the maneuvering with probative obligations.

 

 

Teaching

2011-2012

Inleiding in de communicatie en argumentatie [Introductionto communication and argumentation] (BA-course)

Wetenschapsfilosofie [Philosophy of Science](BA-course)

Capita selecta in argumentation theory (MA-course)

Current research in argumentation theory (MA-course)   

Theoretical backgrounds and approaches to the study of argumentation (MA-course)