Melanie Jong Tjien Fa

List of John Benjamins publications for which Melanie Jong Tjien Fa plays a role.

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van den Heerik, Romy A.M., Christian Burgers, Ellen Droog and Melanie Jong Tjien Fa 2020 Thinking out of the box: Production of direct metaphor in a social media contextInternet Pragmatics 3:1, pp. 64–94 | Article
Metaphor production is a creative process of thinking out of the box, which can be of great communicative value to language users. In this study, we explored how metaphor production can be stimulated by different types of cues in an internet environment. Participants (N = 318) were invited to… read more