Carel van Wijk

Wijk, Carel van and Anja Arts 2008 Does the taxman need a face? Effects of including photographs and examples in a tax form; a field experiment with senior citizens in The Netherlands Information Design Journal 16:2, pp. 85–100 | Article

Due to changes in legislation, the Dutch tax department has become responsible for several allowances as well. This forces the department to improve the affective and motivational responses to its forms. In an attempt to do so, the department has included photographs and examples in a form for… read more

Oversteegen, Leonoor and Carel van Wijk 2003 Lexical alternation versus word repetition: The effects of synonyms on reading time, text appreciation, and persuasiveness Document Design 4:2, pp. 150–167 | Article

Van Waes, Luuk and Carel van Wijk 2001 The influence of politeness on the perception of product recall notices The Pragmatics of Crisis, Jacobs, Geert and Luuk Van Waes (eds.), pp. 272–279 | Article

When companies decide — or are forced — to publish a product recall notice, their aim is to give consumers clear information on how to handle the problem and to warn them of a possible danger. On the other hand companies try to preserve their corporate image in order to guarantee a (commercial)… read more

Wijk, Carel van 2001 Restoring reputation with direct mail: Persuasive effects of blaming either individuals or organisations The Pragmatics of Crisis, Jacobs, Geert and Luuk Van Waes (eds.), pp. 280–292 | Article

A company can consider a disastrous incident from several perspectives. The pervasive ones are ‘Who did it ?’ and ‘How could it happen’ How the public reacts to these perspectives has been determined in a field experiment. Subjects read a direct-mail letter in which an international chain of hotels… read more

Wijk, Carel van 1992 7. Information analysis in written discourse The Construct of Language Proficiency: Applications of psychological models to language assessment, Verhoeven, Ludo and John H.A.L. de Jong (eds.), pp. 85 ff. | Article

Wijk, Carel van and Gerard Kempen 1980 Funktiewcorden - een Inventarisatie voor het Nederlands: An Inventory of Dutch Function Words ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 47, pp. 53–68 | Article

This paper presents an inventory of the function words of the Dutch language. The function words, 418 in total, have been classified into eight categories: prepositions, conjunctions, determiners, relatives, pro-forms, auxiliary and copula verbs, conjunctive adverbs, and intensifiers. In addition,… read more

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