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Ronny Boogaart Editor

Dr. Ronny Boogaart is Assistant Professor at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL). He (co-)authored various invited contributions to linguistic handbooks on tense, aspect and modality, but is also occupied with popularizing linguistics: in 2016 he was awarded for writing the best popular book on linguistics of the year. His current research focuses on the strategic use of constructions in argumentation.

Dr. Henrike Jansen is Associate Professor at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL). She is also editor of the Dutch academic journal Tijdschrift voor Taalbeheersing and board member of the European Conference on Argumentation. Her research concentrates on the formulation aspects of argumentation and on argumentation in populist discourse.

Dr. Maarten van Leeuwen is Assistant Professor at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL). His research focuses on stylistic choices and their argumentative-rhetorical consequences, mainly in the domain of politics.