The Amsterdam Argumentation Chronicle
The Amsterdam Argumentation Chronicle
The Amsterdam Argumentation Chronicle
From left to right: Kaela Dalton, Eveline Feteris, Anton Vesper, Constanza Ihnen Jory, Jean Wagemans, Renske Wierda, Lotte van Poppel, Bart
Garssen, Frans van Eemeren, Jos Plug, Francisca Snoeck Henkemans, Jan Albert van Laar, Dima Mohammed, Bilal Amjarso, Corina Andone, [Milan
Mihajlovic?], Roosmaryn Pilgram, Alexandra Abram, Ingeborg van der Geest, Agnieszka Zacharias, Stefan Slings en Davis Ozols.
Dear Friends,
Again, Roosmaryn Pilgram and Lotte van Poppel have managed to offer all who like to be kept informed about what is going on in
pragma-dialectics an interesting issue of the Amsterdam Argumentation Chronicle. An important innovation is that the Chronicle
has expanded the scope of its reporting beyond the Department of Speech Communication, Argumentation Theory and Rhetoric of
the University of Amsterdam to the much broader international community of pragma-dialectical argumentation researchers. This
innovation was made possible by the recent foundation of the International Learned Institute for Argumentation Studies (ILIAS)
whose acronym links its academic ambition with a shining example of ancient culture and wisdom. I hope that ILIAS will not only
strengthen the intellectual bonds between pragma-dialecticians but also stimulate regular exchanges between pragma-dialecticians
and other argumentation scholars and argumentative cultures.
With kind regards,
Frans H. van Eemeren
In this issue
Visiting scholar
Interview with Xiaojing (Jenny) Wu ........... 3
Thesis summary
By Lester van der Pluijm........ 5
Work in progress
Interview with Lotte van Poppel .. 6
Students about their study programme
By Eugen Octav Popa..... 8
Voice from without
Interview with Sara Rubinelli .. 9
News from the department.... 11
News from ILIAS.... 15
Book publications of the Amsterdam School ... 15
VISITING SCHOLAR
Xiaojing (Jenny) Wu
4
As a matter of fact, yes it is. Here, scholars are
more independent and responsible for their own
research. And people organize their time
efficiently. At the same time, I also found
Dutch scholars have built a close-connected
academic net and researchers have developed
very good cooperative relationships with each
other. And I see thats why European scholars
can always stay competitive in international
academic activities. Compared to scholars at
the University of Amsterdam, Chinese
researchers are more isolated in conducting
their study and we should learn from western
scholars on this point.
Jennys choices
Lecturer
Diary
Beach
Logic
Beijing
Poetry
Handout
Erwtensoep (pea
soup)
Qualitative research
Dont mind me.
Researcher
Twitter
Forest
Rhetoric
New York
Prose
PowerPoint
Poffertjes (tiny
pancakes)
Quantitative research
The world is my
stage.
THESIS SUMMARY
Considering defeasibility in relation to the
pragma-dialectical theory of argumentation
By Lester van der Pluijm
WORK IN PROGRESS
Lotte van Poppel
Can you tell us a bit more about your PhDresearch? What is it about?
7
despite the argumentative nature of many types
of discourse within this context. Argumentation
in health communication is usually only dealt
with in persuasion research, which lacks the
normative perspective, or in framing effects
research, which usually does not start from a
theoretically based distinction between types of
arguments. That is why it was appealing for me
to investigate how a pragma-dialectical
approach to argumentation can shed more light
on the argumentative features of health
communication.
Lottes choices
Lecturer
Diary
Beach
Health
communication
New York
Poetry
Handout
Couch potato
Qualitative research
Dont mind me.
Researcher
Twitter
Forest
Speech
communication
Rome
Prose
PowerPoint
Sports fanatic
Quantitative research
The world is my
stage.
STUDENTS ABOUT
THEIR STUDY
PROGRAMME
To one that asketh...
By Eugen Octav Popa
I still find myself in a slight hesitation each
time I have to explain what it is that I study in
Amsterdam. Before I arrived, while I was still
preparing for admission, I had somehow
managed to escape this sensitive question.
After the first few months, inevitably, friends
and family urged me to disclose, at long last,
the undisclosed: So, tell us now then: what is
it all about? Argumentation theory? Not only.
Philosophy? Too vague, beclouded and
10
Saras choices
Lecturer
Diary
Beach
Health
communication
New York
Poetry
Teaching
Pasta
Qualitative research
Dont mind me.
Researcher
Twitter
Forest
Speech
communication
Rome
Prose
Writing
Rsti
Quantitative research
The world is my
stage.
11
One main thing: be a serious scholar. We do a
job that often empowers our egocentrism. But
the greatest academics have inside what
Aristotle would calls the curiosity of wisdom.
What matters, at the end of the day, is what we
leave when we go off the stage: we can decide
to build a kingdom of clouds, or to leave a little
seed that will grow.
12
13
argumentative dialogues. Reconciling aiming
simultaneously for rationality and
effectiveness.
14
Characteristics of academic communication,
and Renske Wierda the paper Direct-toconsumer medical advertisements as an
argumentative activity type.
15
BOOK
PUBLICATIONS OF
THE AMSTERDAM
SCHOOL
Amjarso, B. (2010). Mentioning and then
refuting an anticipated counterargument.
A conceptual and empirical study of the
persuasiveness of a mode of strategic
manoeuvring. Amsterdam: SicSat /
Amsterdam: Rozenburg Publishers.
Andone, C. (2010). Maneuvring strategically in
a political interview. Analyzing and
evaluating responses to an accusation of
inconsistency. Amsterdam: SicSat /
Amsterdam: Rozenburg Publishers.
Eemeren, F.H. van & A.F. Snoeck Henkemans
(2011). Argumentatie. Inleiding in het
identificeren van meningsverschillen en
het analyseren, beoordelen en houden
van betogen. Vierde druk. Groningen /
Houten: Noordhoff Uitgevers.
Greco Morasso, S. (2011). Argumentation in
Dispute Mediation. A reasonable way to
handle conflict. Amsterdam: John
Benjamins.