Teun A. van Dijk
Encyclopedia
Teun Adrianus van Dijk 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 and context.
He founded six international journals: Poetics, Text (now called Text & Talk
), Discourse & Society, Discourse Studies, Discourse & Communication and the internet journal in Spanish Discurso & Sociedad, of which he still edits the last four.
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.
Text linguistics
Text linguistics is a branch of linguistics that deals with texts as communication systems. Its original aims lay in uncovering and describing text grammars. The application of text linguistics has, however, evolved from this approach to a point in which text is viewed in much broader terms that go...
, discourse analysis
Discourse analysis
Discourse analysis , or discourse studies, is a general term for a number of approaches to analyzing written, spoken, signed language use or any significant semiotic event....
and Critical Discourse Analysis
Critical discourse analysis
Critical discourse analysis is an interdisciplinary approach to the study of discourse that views language as a form of social practice and focuses on the ways social and political domination are visible in text and talk....
(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 and context.
He founded six international journals: Poetics, Text (now called Text & Talk
Text & Talk
Text & Talk is a double-blind peer-reviewed journal published by Mouton de Gruyter. It provides an international and interdisciplinary forum for publication of research in "language, discourse, and communication studies"....
), Discourse & Society, Discourse Studies, Discourse & Communication and the internet journal in Spanish Discurso & Sociedad, of which he still edits the last four.
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
Pompeu Fabra University
Pompeu Fabra University is a university in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It is widely considered to be one of the best universities in Spain and in Europe, and was ranked 1st in scientific productivity in Spain in 2009. Founded in 1990, it is named after the Catalan philologist Pompeu Fabra...
, Barcelona
Barcelona
Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...
. He has widely lectured internationally, especially in Latin America.
Selected bibliography
Books in English only.- Some aspects of text grammars. A Study in theoretical poetics and linguistics. The Hague: Mouton, 1972.
- Text and context. Explorations in the semantics and pragmatics of discourse. London: Longman, 1977.
- Macrostructures. An interdisciplinary study of global structures in discourse, interaction, and cognition. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
- Studies in the pragmatics of discourse. The Hague/Berlin: Mouton, 1981.
- Prejudice in discourse. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1984.
- Communicating Racism. Ethnic Prejudice in Thought and Talk. Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1987.
- News as Discourse. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum, 1988.
- News Analysis. Case studies of international and national news in the press. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum, 1988.
- Racism and the Press. London: Routledge, 1991.
- Elite discourse and racism. Newbury Park, CA: SAGE, 1993.
- Ideology: A Multidisciplinary Approach. London: Sage, 1998.
- Discourse and racism in Spain and Latin America. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2005.
- Discourse and Context. A sociocognitive approach. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
- Society and Discourse. How social contexts control text and talk.. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008 (in press)
- Discourse and Power. Contributions to Critical Discourse Studies. Houndsmills: Palgrave MacMillan, 2008.
- Strategies of Discourse Comprehension. with Walter Kintsch. New York: Academic Press, 1983.
Edited books
- Pragmatics of language and literature. Amsterdam: North Holland, 1976.
- Handbook of Discourse Analysis. 4 vols. London: Academic Press, 1985.
- Discourse and communication. Berlin/New York: de Gruyter, 1985.
- Discourse Studies. A multidisciplinary introduction. 2 vols. London: Sage, 1997.
- Discourse Studies. 5 vols. Sage Benchmark Series. New Delhi: Sage, 2007.
- Discourse and Discrimination. With Geneva Smitherman-Donaldson. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 1988.
- Racism at the Top. Parliamentary Discourses on Ethnic Issues in Six European Countries. With Ruth WodakRuth WodakRuth Wodak is Distinguished Professor and Chair in Discourse Studies at Lancaster University. She moved from Vienna, Austria, where she was full professor of Applied Linguistics since 1991...
. Klagenfurt: Drava Verlag, 2000. - Communicating Ideologies. Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Language, Discourse and Social Practice. With Martin Pütz and JoAnne Neff-van Aertselaer. Frankfurt/Main: Peter Lang, 2004.