Demi van Dijk

List of John Benjamins publications for which Demi van Dijk plays a role.

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van Dijk, Demi, Jorrig Vogels and Mark de Vries 2022 Interpreting idioms in a second language: The role of context and transfer in interpreting English idioms by native Dutch speakers Linguistics in the Netherlands 2022, Vogels, Jorrig and Sterre Leufkens (eds.), pp. 55–71 | Article
How do people understand figurative speech in a foreign language? What strategies do they use? By means of an online questionnaire, this study investigated to what extent contextual information and transfer play a role in the interpretation of idioms in a second language, controlling for… read more