Teun Adrianus van Dijk (born May 7, 1943, in

Naaldwijk Naaldwijk () is a town in the Dutch province of South Holland. It is a part of the municipality of Westland, and lies about 10 km southwest of The Hague. Naaldwijk lies in the heart of Westland. The largest economic sector is greenhouse ...

, German-occcupied Netherlands) is a scholar in the fields of

text linguistics Text linguistics is a branch of linguistics that deals with texts as communication systems. Its original aims lay in uncovering and describing text grammars. The application of text linguistics has, however, evolved from this approach to a point in ...

discourse analysis Discourse analysis (DA), or discourse studies, is an approach to the analysis of written, vocal, or sign language use, or any significant semiotic event. The objects of discourse Analysis (discourse, writing, conversation, communicative event) ...

and

Critical Discourse Analysis Critical discourse analysis (CDA) is an interdisciplinary approach to the study of discourse that views language as a form of social practice. CDA combines critique of discourse and explanation of how it figures within and contributes to the exis ...

(CDA). With

Walter Kintsch Walter Kintsch (born 1932) is an American Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Colorado Boulder (United States). He is renowned for his groundbreaking theories in cognitive psychology, especially in relation to text comprehens ...

he contributed to the development of the psychology of text processing. Since the 1980s his work in CDA focused especially on the study of the discursive reproduction of racism by what he calls the 'symbolic elites' (politicians, journalists, scholars, writers), the study of news in the press, and on the theories of ideology, context and knowledge. He founded six international journals: ''Poetics'', ''Text'' (now called ''

Text & Talk ''Text & Talk: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Language, Discourse & Communication Studies'' is an academic journal An academic journal or scholarly journal is a periodical publication in which scholarship relating to a particular academic ...

''), ''

Discourse & Society ''Discourse & Society'' is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal that covers the field of discourse analysis. It was established in 1990 by Teun A. van Dijk (Pompeu Fabra University), who has been the editor-in-chief ever since. Abstractin ...

'', ''

Discourse Studies ''Discourse Studies'' is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal that covers the field of discourse analysis, especially articles that offer a detailed, systematic and explicit analysis of the structures and strategies of text and talk, their co ...

'', ''

Discourse & Communication ''Discourse & Communication'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal that covers the fields of discourse analysis and social communication by focusing on topics in communication analyzed with discourse analytical methods. The journal was es ...

'', of which he still edits the last three. Teun A. van Dijk was a professor of discourse studies at the

University of Amsterdam The University of Amsterdam (abbreviated as UvA, nl, Universiteit van Amsterdam) is a public research university located in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The UvA is one of two large, publicly funded research universities in the city, the other being ...

from 1968 until 2004, and since 1999 he has taught at the

Pompeu Fabra University Pompeu Fabra University ( ca, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, UPF, ; es, link=no, Universidad Pompeu Fabra) is a public university located in the city of Barcelona, Catalonia in Spain. The university was created by the Autonomous Government of Catalo ...

Barcelona Barcelona ( , , ) is a city on the coast of northeastern Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within ci ...

. In 2017 he founded th
Centre of Discourse Studies
in Barcelona. He has widely lectured internationally, especially in Latin America.

Selected bibliography

* ''Some aspects of text grammars. A Study in theoretical poetics and linguistics''. The Hague: Mouton, 1972. * ''Text and context. Explorations in the semantics and pragmatics of discourse''. London: Longman, 1977. * ''Macrostructures. An interdisciplinary study of global structures in discourse, interaction, and cognition''. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. * ''Studies in the pragmatics of discourse''. The Hague/Berlin: Mouton, 1981. * ''Prejudice in discourse''. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1984. * ''Communicating Racism. Ethnic Prejudice in Thought and Talk''. Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1987. * ''News as Discourse''. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum, 1988. * ''News Analysis. Case studies of international and national news in the press''. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum, 1988. * ''Racism and the Press''. London: Routledge, 1991. * ''Elite discourse and racism''. Newbury Park, CA: SAGE, 1993. * ''Ideology: A Multidisciplinary Approach''. London: Sage, 1998. * ''Racism and Discourse in Spain and Latin America''. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2005. * ''Discourse and Context. A sociocognitive approach.'' Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. * ''Society and Discourse. How social contexts control text and talk.''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. * ''Discourse and Power. Contributions to Critical Discourse Studies.'' Houndsmills: Palgrave MacMillan, 2008. * ''Discourse and Knowledge. A sociocognitive approach.'' Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. * ''Strategies of Discourse Comprehension''. with Walter Kintsch. New York: Academic Press, 1983.

Edited books

* ''Pragmatics of language and literature''. Amsterdam: North Holland, 1976. * ''Handbook of Discourse Analysis''. 4 vols. London: Academic Press, 1985. * ''Discourse and communication''. Berlin/New York: de Gruyter, 1985. * ''Discourse Studies. A multidisciplinary introduction''. 2 vols. London: Sage, 1997. Second, one-volume edition, 2011. * ''Discourse Studies.'' 5 vols. Sage Benchmark Series. New Delhi: Sage, 2007. * ''Discourse and Discrimination''. With Geneva Smitherman-Donaldson. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 1988. * ''Racism at the Top. Parliamentary Discourses on Ethnic Issues in Six European Countries''. With

Ruth Wodak Ruth Wodak (born 12 July 1950 in London) is an Austrian linguist, who is Emeritus Distinguished Professor and Chair in Discourse Studies in the Department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University and Professor in Linguistics ...

. Klagenfurt: Drava Verlag, 2000. * ''Communicating Ideologies. Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Language, Discourse and Social Practice''. With Martin Pütz and JoAnne Neff-van Aertselaer. Frankfurt/Main: Peter Lang, 2004. * ''Racism and Discourse in Latin America.'' Lanham, Md: Lexington Books, 2009.

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External links

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