Lettica Hustinx
List of John Benjamins publications in which Lettica Hustinx is involved.
Articles
2019 Chapter 6. Determinants of abstractness and concreteness and their persuasive effects Perspectives on Abstract Concepts: Cognition, language and communication, Bolognesi, Marianna and Gerard J. Steen (eds.), pp. 121–144 | Chapter
The writing guideline to avoid abstractness and to use concrete language instead has a long and well-deserved reputation. Nevertheless, it is not clear what constitutes concrete language. In this chapter we report two studies. The first investigates the determinants of concreteness and… read more
2018 Two dimensions of language intensity in evaluative discourse: Contextuality and semantic richness The Construction of Discourse as Verbal Interaction, Gómez González, María de los Ángeles and J. Lachlan Mackenzie (eds.), pp. 273–296 | Chapter
Language intensity has been investigated within several disciplines, such as linguistics, stylistics and social psychology, and from several approaches. As a result, a wide range of intensifying elements and effects have been identified. In this chapter, we demonstrate on the basis of a qualitative… read more
2011 5. The effect of story structure on emotion, transportation, and persuasion Information Design Journal 19:2, pp. 142–154 | Article