Henrike Jansen

Datos Biográficos

ID9518331
NOMBREHenrike Jansen
NOMBRESHenrike
APELLIDOJansen
FIRMAJANSEN H
AFILIACIONESLeiden University
ORCID0000-0002-3068-6897
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS4
TOTAL DE CITAS0
OBRAS COMO AUTOR4
OBRAS COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2020
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2023
ÍNDICE H0

  • High Costs and Low Benefits

    Open AccessHenrike JansenARTICLEArgumentation2023

    This article presents an analysis and evaluation of what I call the “I’m not stupid” argument. This argument has ancient roots, which lie in Aristotle’s famous description of the weak man’s and strong man’s arguments. An “I’m not stupid” argument is typically used in a context of accusation and defense, by a defendant who argues that they did not commit the act of which they have been accused. The analysis of this type of argument takes the shape…

  • Revisiting Reverse Eikos

    Henrike JansenARTICLEPhilosophy and Rhetoric2023

    Reverse eikos (plausibility) arguments are notorious for reversing a reason that supports an accusation into a reason that denies this accusation. This article offers new insights on their analysis and evaluation, by reconstructing a reverse eikos argument’s line of reasoning as an argumentative pattern. The pattern reveals that this type of argument centers not only on the arguer’s claim that by doing the act of which they have been accused, the…

  • “Those are Your Words, Not Mine!” Defence Strategies for Denying Speaker Commitment

    Open AccessRonny Boogaart, Henrike Jansen et al.ARTICLEArgumentation2021

    In response to an accusation of having said something inappropriate, the accused may exploit the difference between the explicit contents of their utterance and its implicatures. Widely discussed in the pragmatics literature are those cases in which arguers accept accountability only for the explicit contents of what they said while denying commitment to the (alleged) implicature (“Those are your words, not mine!”). In this paper, we sketch a ful…

  • Argumentative Use and Strategic Function of the Expression ‘Not for Nothing’

    Open AccessHenrike Jansen, Francisca Snoeck HenkemansARTICLEArgumentation2020

    In English discourse one can find cases of the expression ‘not for nothing’ being used in argumentation. The expression can occur both in the argument and in the standpoint. In this chapter we analyse the argumentative and rhetorical aspects of ‘not for nothing’ by regarding this expression as a presentational device for strategic manoeuvring. We investigate under which conditions the proposition containing the expression ‘not for nothing’ functi…