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Teun A. van Dijk

1943 - Today

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Teun Adrianus van Dijk (born 7 May 1943 in Naaldwijk, German-occupied Netherlands) is a scholar in the fields of text linguistics, discourse analysis and Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). With Walter Kintsch he contributed to the development of the psychology of text processing. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Teun A. van Dijk has received more than 161,381 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Teun A. van Dijk is the 103rd most popular linguist (down from 91st in 2019), the 526th most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 475th in 2019) and the most popular Dutch Linguist.

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  • 16

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  • 5.12

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  • 1.92

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Teun A. van Dijk ranks 103 out of 214. Before him are Tamaz V. Gamkrelidze, Michael Halliday, Alexander Potebnja, Johannes Schmidt, Yuen Ren Chao, and Đuro Daničić. After him are Joan Coromines, Matteo Bartoli, Igor M. Diakonoff, Daniel Jones, Heinrich Hübschmann, and Nakahama Manjirō.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Teun A. van Dijk ranks 295. Before him are Peter Hyams, Larry Clark, Akinori Nakayama, Stanislav Galić, Marcos Valle, and Tadao Onishi. After him are Nikolay Shmatko, Mulatu Astatke, Jack Nance, Gisela Hahn, William Calley, and Stanley Kamel.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Teun A. van Dijk ranks 526 out of 1,646. Before him are Ernesto Hoost (1965), Wiel Coerver (1924), Kees Rijvers (1926), Balthasar Bekker (1634), Martin Koeman (1938), and Gerrie Mühren (1946). After him are Hennie Kuiper (1949), Bart van der Leck (1876), Adrianus Johannes Simonis (1931), Willem Frederik Hermans (1921), Johannes van den Bosch (1780), and Jan van de Cappelle (1624).

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Among LINGUISTS In Netherlands

Among linguists born in Netherlands, Teun A. van Dijk ranks 1. After him are Jan de Vries (1890), Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn (1612), and Rogier Blokland (1971).

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