John Hoeks
List of John Benjamins publications in which John Hoeks is involved.
2016 Talking about health messages: The relationship between perceived complexity, processing time, and conversational intentions Dutch Journal of Applied Linguistics 5:2, pp. 126–144 | Article
Interpersonal communication has been shown to influence health campaign outcomes, but little is known about ways in which conversations can actually be elicited. In this correlational study, we tested the assumption that perceived complexity of the message can be a predictor of interpersonal… read more
2015 The EPPM put to the test: Evaluating four basic propositions Dutch Journal of Applied Linguistics 4:2, pp. 241–256 | Article
Fear appeals are frequently used in health communication, for example in anti-smoking campaigns. Of the different theoretical models that predict and explain how fear appeals work, the Extended Parallel Process Model (EPPM; Witte, 1992) is probably used most often. However, most propositions of the… read more
2014 Look before you leap: How enjambment affects the processing of poetry Scientific Study of Literature 4:1, pp. 3–24 | Article
This study describes two eye tracking experiments investigating the processing of poetry with and without enjambments. In Experiment 1, poetic fragments with authentic prospective (syntactically incomplete) or retrospective (syntactically complete) enjambments were investigated; in Experiment 2,… read more
2012 Is the Dutch Delay of Principle B Effect dependent on verb type? Linguistics in the Netherlands 2012, Elenbaas, Marion and Suzanne Aalberse (eds.), pp. 1–14 | Article
Dutch children interpret reflexives correctly from age 4 on, but frequently misinterpret object pronouns as coreferring with the local subject until age 6. We investigated whether this so-called Delay of Principle B Effect (DPBE) differs by verb type. We tested 47 children between 4 and 6 years… read more