Charlotte van der Voort
Lecturer-PhD candidate
- Name
- C. van der Voort MA
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2125
- c.van.der.voort@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Charlotte van der Voort is a lecturer and PhD candidate at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. Her research interests revolve around the interface between ancient and modern rhetoric, argumentation theory and philosophy (of language).
More information about Charlotte van der Voort
Fields of interest
- Ancient and modern rhetorical theory
- Argumentation theory
- Implicit communication strategies
- Ancient Greek philosophy
Research
My PhD research project focuses on the different ways in which speakers (can) make use of strategically ambiguous implicit communication in argumentative discourses. In this research, I combine insights from ancient rhetoric on figured discourse ('oratio figurata') with modern pragmatic theories on accountability-avoiding phenomena like insinuation, dog-whistles and other forms of coded communication in order to collect actual examples and analyze the different argumentative forms and functions these implicit communication strategies can have.
Grants and awards
- First Prize Leiden University Thesis Awards 2024
- OIKOS Thesis Award 2024
- First Prize Leiden University Thesis Awards 2022
Curriculum vitae
| 2023-present | PhD-candidate at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. |
| 2020-2023 | ResMA Classics and Ancient Civilizations at Leiden University. Master’s thesis: Speaking Silences: Silence Substituting Speech in the Later Platonic Tradition. |
| 2020-2021 | MA Dutch: Discourse Studies at Leiden University. Master’s thesis: Dilemmatische argumentatie: een pragma-dialectische reconstructie van dilemmatische argumentatie en een analyse van hun strategische functie. |
| 2015-2019 | BA Greek and Latin Language and Culture at Leiden University. |
Lecturer-PhD candidate
- Faculty of Humanities
- Leiden Univ Centre for Linguistics
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