Corina Andone
List of John Benjamins publications for which Corina Andone plays a role.
Journal
Titles
Argumentation in European Politics
Edited by Corina Andone and Bart Garssen
Special issue of Journal of Argumentation in Context 11:1 (2022) v, 155 pp.
Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Argumentation in Journalism: Professional practices and the public sphere
Edited by Corina Andone and Andrea Rocci
Special issue of Journal of Argumentation in Context 5:1 (2016) v, 111 pp.
Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Argumentation in Political Interviews: Analyzing and evaluating responses to accusations of inconsistency
Corina Andone
[Argumentation in Context, 5] 2013. viii, 147 pp.
Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Philosophy | Pragmatics
Fallacies and biases: The case of the straw man Pragmatics & Cognition 31:1, pp. 244–285 | Article
2024 When processing political arguments, people are strongly affected by their prior ideological beliefs. Political cognition often relies on two types of ideological biases. Firstly, confirmation bias leads addressees of political communication to accept arguments that affirm their preferred… read more
Arguing through quotations: The case of European Commission press releases Argumentation in European Politics, Andone, Corina and Bart Garssen (eds.), pp. 69–87 | Article
2022 This paper analyses and evaluates the use of arguments in which quotations are employed to convince the addressees of the acceptability of a proposed action. Based on the European Commission’s press releases, a communicative practice in which quotations are typically employed, the study… read more
Introduction Argumentation in European Politics, Andone, Corina and Bart Garssen (eds.), pp. 1–5 | Introduction
2022
2020
Scientific arguments in policy-making Journal of Argumentation in Context 8:2, pp. 195–213 | Article
2019 This paper focuses on the use of scientific insights for justifying decisions in policy-making. Because in policy-making the politician argues for a future course of action by pointing at its positive consequences, the burden of proof should concern not only the scientific arguments, but also… read more
Figurative analogies and how they are resisted in British Public Bill Committee debates Metaphor and the Social World 9:1, pp. 107–130 | Article
2019 This paper studies metaphor use in British Public Bill Committee debates. It focuses on the way in which legislators frame their arguments in metaphorical terms under the form of figurative analogies. Because these figurative analogies can be misleading by oversimplifying the issue under… read more
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, pp. 718–738 | Article
2019 This paper examines how politicians employ metaphors to express starting points in British parliamentary debates. Because these metaphors are conceptual tools that may have presuppositions and entailments that are not in line with the ideas and values of all discussion parties, political… read more
Chapter 14. Delimiting the burden of proof in political interviews Contextualizing Pragma-Dialectics, Eemeren, Frans H. van and Peng Wu (eds.), pp. 255–268 | Chapter
2017
2017
Argumentative patterns in the European Union’s directives: An effective tool to foster compliance by the Member States? Context-dependency of Argumentative Patterns, Eemeren, Frans H. van (ed.), pp. 76–96 | Article
2017 This paper provides an account of the arguments advanced by the European Union (EU) legislator in the preamble of directives adopted for harmonization in the internal market, and assesses them as to their potential at convincing the Member States to implement the directive at issue. We show what… read more
2016
Delimiting the burden of proof in political interviews Argumentation in Journalism: Professional practices and the public sphere, Andone, Corina and Andrea Rocci (eds.), pp. 74–87 | Article
2016 This paper aims to contribute to an understanding of the politicians’ burden of proof in political interviews by explaining how politicians attempt to delimit the burden of proof which they acquire for their standpoints in response to criticism. As politicians always want to give a positive… read more
Argumentation in journalism: Professional practices and the public sphere Argumentation in Journalism: Professional practices and the public sphere, Andone, Corina and Andrea Rocci (eds.), pp. 1–8 | Article
2016
2015
The burden of proof in dealing with political accountability Persuasive Games in Political and Professional Dialogue, Săftoiu, Răzvan, Maria-Ionela Neagu and Stanca Măda (eds.), pp. 19–38 | Article
2015 The aim of this paper is to explain from a pragma-dialectical argumentative perspective the use of the concept of burden of proof in dealing with political accountability. In the first part of the paper, a procedural view of the burden of proof is sketched which is fundamental for understanding its… read more
Strategic manoeuvring in a political interview: The case of responding to an accusation of inconsistency The Pragmatics of Political Discourse: Explorations across cultures, Fetzer, Anita (ed.), pp. 103–124 | Article
2013 In this paper the author analyses the way in which politicians manoeuver strategically in a political interview in response to an interviewer’s accusation that their position is inconsistent with a position they advanced before. This analysis is carried out by making use of the pragma-dialectical… read more
Chapter 1. The reasonableness of confrontational strategic maneuvering in political interviews Exploring Argumentative Contexts, Eemeren, Frans H. van and Bart Garssen (eds.), pp. 1–22 | Article
2012 The goal of this paper is to evaluate a politician’s responses to an interviewer’s accusation that his current standpoint is inconsistent with an earlier expressed standpoint on the same issue. The author focuses on the case in which the politician responds to such criticism by retracting the… read more
2012
Maneuvering strategically with dissociation in a political interview Keeping in touch with Pragma-Dialectics: In honor of Frans H. van Eemeren, Feteris, Eveline T., Bart Garssen and Francisca Snoeck Henkemans (eds.), pp. 5–20 | Article
2011 Accusing someone of an inconsistency as a confrontational way of strategic manoeuvring Examining Argumentation in Context: Fifteen studies on strategic maneuvering, Eemeren, Frans H. van (ed.), pp. 153–169 | Article
2009