1943 - Today
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. 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), Discourse & Society, Discourse Studies, Discourse & Communication, of which he still edits the last three. Teun A. van Dijk was a professor of discourse studies at the University of Amsterdam from 1968 until 2004, and since 1999 he has taught at the Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Teun A. van Dijk has received more than 151,647 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Teun A. van Dijk is the 91st most popular linguist (up from 95th in 2019), the 476th most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 475th in 2019) and the most popular Dutch Linguist.
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Among linguists, Teun A. van Dijk ranks 91 out of 161. Before him are Yuen Ren Chao, Paul Ariste, Alexander Potebnja, Agop Dilâçar, Konrad Duden, and Bernhard Karlgren. After him are Ahatanhel Krymsky, Alexander Gode, Matteo Bartoli, Albert Sechehaye, Hans Ørberg, and Igor M. Diakonoff.
1892 - 1982
HPI: 51.62
Rank: 85
1905 - 1990
HPI: 51.60
Rank: 86
1835 - 1891
HPI: 51.51
Rank: 87
1895 - 1979
HPI: 51.51
Rank: 88
1829 - 1911
HPI: 51.49
Rank: 89
1889 - 1978
HPI: 51.43
Rank: 90
1943 - Present
HPI: 51.39
Rank: 91
1871 - 1942
HPI: 51.30
Rank: 92
1906 - 1970
HPI: 51.29
Rank: 93
1873 - 1946
HPI: 51.28
Rank: 94
1870 - 1946
HPI: 51.23
Rank: 95
1920 - 2010
HPI: 51.20
Rank: 96
1914 - 1999
HPI: 51.05
Rank: 97
Among people born in 1943, Teun A. van Dijk ranks 268. Before him are Marika Green, Scott Walker, Michel Ocelot, Hugh Thompson Jr., Andrea True, and Udo Zimmermann. After him are Princess Claude of Orléans, Roy Black, Sirajuddin of Perlis, Negasso Gidada, Angélica María, and Soledad Miranda.
1943 - Present
HPI: 51.53
Rank: 262
1943 - 2019
HPI: 51.50
Rank: 263
1943 - Present
HPI: 51.49
Rank: 264
1943 - 2006
HPI: 51.48
Rank: 265
1943 - 2011
HPI: 51.45
Rank: 266
1943 - 2021
HPI: 51.42
Rank: 267
1943 - Present
HPI: 51.39
Rank: 268
1943 - Present
HPI: 51.33
Rank: 269
1943 - 1991
HPI: 51.32
Rank: 270
1943 - Present
HPI: 51.25
Rank: 271
1943 - 2019
HPI: 51.24
Rank: 272
1943 - Present
HPI: 51.23
Rank: 273
1943 - 1970
HPI: 51.22
Rank: 274
Among people born in Netherlands, Teun A. van Dijk ranks 476 out of 1,427. Before him are Hendrik Willem Mesdag (1831), Albert Eckhout (1610), Dick Nanninga (1949), Nicolaes Witsen (1641), Nina Foch (1924), and Pim Verbeek (1956). After him are Roméo Dallaire (1946), Corrie ten Boom (1892), Fons Rademakers (1920), Balthasar Bekker (1634), Theodoor Hendrik van de Velde (1873), and Pieter Post (1608).
1831 - 1915
HPI: 51.52
Rank: 470
1610 - 1666
HPI: 51.52
Rank: 471
1949 - 2015
HPI: 51.49
Rank: 472
1641 - 1717
HPI: 51.47
Rank: 473
1924 - 2008
HPI: 51.42
Rank: 474
1956 - 2019
HPI: 51.39
Rank: 475
1943 - Present
HPI: 51.39
Rank: 476
1946 - Present
HPI: 51.38
Rank: 477
1892 - 1983
HPI: 51.35
Rank: 478
1920 - 2007
HPI: 51.34
Rank: 479
1634 - 1698
HPI: 51.30
Rank: 480
1873 - 1937
HPI: 51.30
Rank: 481
1608 - 1669
HPI: 51.30
Rank: 482
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).
1943 - Present
HPI: 51.39
Rank: 1
1890 - 1964
HPI: 48.33
Rank: 2
1612 - 1653
HPI: 46.85
Rank: 3
1971 - Present
HPI: 37.15
Rank: 4