Teun A. van Dijk, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Teun A. van Dijk

Dutch linguist

Date of Birth: 07-May-1943

Place of Birth: Naaldwijk, South Holland, Netherlands

Profession: professor, sociologist, linguist

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Teun Adrianus van Dijk (born May 7, 1943 in Naaldwijk, the 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, and the internet journal in Spanish Discurso & Sociedad.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.
He has widely lectured internationally, especially in Latin America.