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Teun A. van Dijk

Teun A. van Dijk is a astronomy topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Teun A. van Dijk rather than just read about it. In short: 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 Studies (CDS). He studied French Language and Literature at the Free University (Amsterdam) and General Literary Studies at the University of Amsterdam, and post graduate studies as the University of Strasbourg, l’École Pratique des Hautes Études…

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Reference excerpt

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 Studies (CDS). He studied French Language and Literature at the Free University (Amsterdam) and General Literary Studies at the University of Amsterdam, and post graduate studies as the University of Strasbourg, l’École Pratique des Hautes Études (now EHESS, Paris), the University of California at Berkeley, and the University of California at San Diego. With Walter Kintsch he contributed to the development of the psychology of text processing. Since the 1980s his work in CDS 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. His recent work is on social movement discourse and on discourse and ideologies of the Radical Right His publications since the 1980s on different topics in Critical Discourse Studies are increasingly multidisciplinary and relate discourse and society via a sociocognitive interface. He founded six international journals: Poetics, Text (now called Text & Talk),Discurso & Sociedad, Discourse & Communication,Discourse & Society, Discourse Studies, , of which he still edits the last two. 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. In 2017 he founded the Centre of Discourse Studies in Barcelona. He gave lectures in more than 60 countries, taught at the University of Bielefeld (Germany), the UNAM and the Colegio de México (Mexico), the University of Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras, UNICAMP and UERJ (Brazil), and received honorary doctorates from the Universities of Buenos Aires, Tucumán and Mendoza (Argentina).

Selected bibliography 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. Racism and Discourse 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, 2009. Discourse and Power. Contributions to Critical Discourse Studies. Houndsmills: Palgrave MacMillan, 2008. Discourse and Knowledge. A sociocognitive approach. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Antiracist Discourse in Brazil. From Abolition to Affirmative Action.. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2020. Antiracist Discourse. Theory and History of a Macromovement. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Social Movement Discourse. An Introduction. Abington: Routledge, 2024. Discourse and Ideologies of the Radical Right. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. 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. Second, one-volume edition, 2011. 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 Wodak. 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. Racism and Discourse in Latin America. Lanham, Md: Lexington Books, 2009. Handbook of Discourse Studies in Spanish. London: Routledge, 2022. with Carmen López and Isolda Carranza.

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Teun A. van Dijk

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Teun A. van Dijk claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In astronomy, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Teun A. van Dijk before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Teun A. van Dijk ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Teun A. van Dijk

In research: Teun A. van Dijk appears in astronomy research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Teun A. van Dijk in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Teun A. van Dijk is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1943 births, Academic staff of Pompeu Fabra University, Academic staff of the University of Amsterdam, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Teun A. van Dijk outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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Frequently asked questions

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Because it connects several astronomy ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

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Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

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