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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. 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

Among linguists, Teun A. van Dijk ranks 91 out of 161Before 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.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Teun A. van Dijk ranks 268Before 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.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Teun A. van Dijk ranks 476 out of 1,427Before 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).

Among LINGUISTS In Netherlands

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