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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 five international journals: Poetics, Text (now called Text & Talk), Discourse & Society, Discourse Studies, Discourse & Communication, of which he still edits the last three. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Teun A. van Dijk is the 102nd most popular linguist (up from 103rd in 2019), the 527th most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 526th in 2019) and the most popular Dutch Linguist.

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Teun A. van Dijk ranks 102 out of 214. Before him are Joan Coromines, Leo Spitzer, Georg Curtius, Kazimieras Būga, Henry Watson Fowler, and Agop Dilâçar. After him are Heinrich Hübschmann, Daniel Jones, Jules Gilliéron, Jan de Vries, Brian Houghton Hodgson, and August Immanuel Bekker.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Teun A. van Dijk ranks 304. Before him are Gianni Russo, Nolan Bushnell, Hans Heyer, Paul Freeman, Sylvester McCoy, and Douglas Tompkins. After him are Laura Biagiotti, John Zerzan, Hilton Valentine, Kirin Kiki, Jimmy Snuka, and Tuesday Weld.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Teun A. van Dijk ranks 527 out of 1,646. Before him are Hendrik Willem Mesdag (1831), Hendrikus Colijn (1869), Nina Foch (1924), Adri van der Poel (1959), Louis Andriessen (1939), and Netti Witziers-Timmer (1923). After him are Coenraad Johannes van Houten (1801), Kees Kist (1952), Balthasar Bekker (1634), Dirck Coornhert (1522), Matthias Stom (1600), and Henry Casimir I of Nassau-Dietz (1612).

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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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