Curriculum Vitae Teun A. van Dijk

Version: March 15, 2006

Name: Teun A. van Dijk

Address: XXXX Barcelona

Born: May 7, 1943, Naaldwijk, the Netherlands

Institutional address: Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Dept. de Traducció i Filologia, Rambla 30, 08002 Barcelona
E-mail: vandijk at discourses dot org
Internet: www.discourses.org

Academic Studies
French Language and Literature. Free University of Amsterdam, 1962-1967. Degree equivalent to MA.
Université de Strasbourg, 1965-1966. Visiting student.
Theory of Literature: University of Amsterdam, 1967-1968. Degree equivalent to MA.
École Pratiques des Hautes Études, Paris, 1969. Visiting student.
PhD University of Amsterdam, 1972. PhD Thesis: Some aspects of text grammars. The Hague: Mouton, 1972.
Postdoctoral studies: University of California, Berkeley, 1973.

Academic Positions
Lecturer Literary Studies, University of Amsterdam, 1968-1980
Professor Discourse Studies (personal chair), University of Amsterdam, 1980-2004.
Visiting Professor University of Bielefeld, Germany, 1973
Visiting Professor Universidad de Campinas, Brazil, 1992
Visiting Professor Universitat Pompeu Fabra, IULA, 1999-2000
Profesor Extraordinario Universidad Católica de Valparaiso, 2000-
Visiting Professor (Ramón y Cajal), Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Dept. de Traducció i Filología, 2001-2006 (Until November 15, 2006).

Doctor honoris causa: Universidades de Buenos Aires and Tucumán (Argentina)

Publications

A. Books/Monographs

1. Moderne literatuurtheorie. Een experimentele inleiding. (Modern theory of literature. An experimental introduction). Amsterdam: van Gennep, 1971.

2. Taal. Tekst. Teken. Bijdragen tot de literatuurtheorie . (Language. Text. Sign. Contributions to the theory of literature). Amsterdam: Atheneum, Polak & van Gennep, 1971.

    This book won the Essay Award of the City of Amsterdam.

3. Beiträge zur generativen Poetik . München: Bayerischer Schulbuch Verlag, 1972.

        ·        Italian translation: Per una poetica generativa . Bologna: Il Mulino, 1976.

4. Some aspects of text grammars. A Study in theoretical poetics and linguistics . The Hague: Mouton, 1972.

5. Text and context. Explorations in the semantics and pragmatics of discourse . London: Longman, 1977.

        ·        Spanish translation: Texto y contexto . Madrid: Catedra, 1980.

        ·        Italian translation: Testo e contesto . Bologna: Il Mulino, 1981.

6. Het literatuuronderwijs op school. Een kritische analyse . (Teaching literature at school. A critical analysis). Amsterdam: Van Gennep, 1977.

7. Taal en handelen. Een interdisciplinaire inleiding . (Language and action. An interdisciplinary introduction). Muiderberg: Coutinho, 1978.

8. Tekstwetenschap. Een interdisciplinaire inleiding . (Discourse studies. An interdisciplinary introduction). Utrecht: Het Spectrum, 1978.

        ·        German translation: Textwissenschaft . Tuebingen: Niemeyer, 1980.

        ·        Spanish translation: La ciencia del texto . Barcelona/Buenos Aires: Paidos, 1983.

        9. The structures and functions of discourse. An interdisciplinary introduction to textlinguistics and discourse studies .
        Text of lectures given at the University of Puerto     Rico at Rio Piedras. University of Amsterdam, Unpublished ms. 1978.
    ·     Spanish translation: Las estructuras y funciones del discurso . Mexico: Siglo XXI, 1981. (7a edición 1993).(14a edición actualizada, 2005)

10. Macrostructures. An interdisciplinary study of global structures in discourse, interaction, and cognition . Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

11. Studies in the pragmatics of discourse . The Hague/Berlin: Mouton, 1981.

12. Minderheden in de media . (Minorities in the media). Amsterdam: SUA, 1983.

13. Prejudice in discourse. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1984.

14. Structures of international news . Report to UNESCO. University of Amsterdam, Dept. of General Literary Studies, Section of Discourse Studies, 1984.

15. Communicating Racism. Ethnic Prejudice in Thought and Talk. Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1987.

16. News as Discourse . Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum, 1988.

        ·        Spanish translation, La noticia como discurso. Comprensión, estructura y producción de la información. Barcelona, Paidos, 1990.

17. News Analysis. Case studies of international and national news in the press . Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum, 1988.

18. Schoolvoorbeelden van racisme. De reproduktie van racisme in maatschappijleerboeken
    (Textbook examples of racism. The reproduction of racism in social science textbooks). Amsterdam: Socialistische Uitgeverij Amsterdam, 1987.

19. Jazyk, poznanie, kommunikatsia (Language, Cognition and Communication). Moscow: Progress, 1989 (Collection of articles, translated from English).

20. Racism and the Press. London: Routledge, 1991.

21. Discurso, cognicão, interacão . (Discourse, Cognition, Interaction). São Paulo: Contexto, 1992. (Collection of articles translated from English).

22. Elite discourse and racism. Newbury Park, CA: SAGE, 1993.

        ·        Spanish version, Racismo y discurso de las élites. Barcelona: Gedisa, 2003.

23. (Society, cognition and discourse: In Chinese, collection of articles translated from English). Beijing: China Book Company, 1993.

24. Il discurso razzista. La riproduzione del pregiudizio nei discorso quotidiani. Presentazione di Laura Balbo. Messina (Italy): Rubbettino.

25. Discurso, poder y cognición social. Conferencias de Teun A. van Dijk . Special issue of Cuadernos Maestría en Lingüística (Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia), 2(2), 1994.

26. Prensa, racismo y poder . México: Universidad IberoAmericana, 1995.

27. Discourse, racism and ideology. La Laguna (Spain): RCEI Ediciones, 1996.

28. Racismo y análisis crítico de los medios. Barcelona: Paidos, 1997

29. Ideology. London: Sage, 1998.

        ·        Spanish translation, Ideología. Barcelona: Gedisa, 1999.

30. De Rasoel-Komrij affaire. Amsterdam: Critics, 2003.

31. Ideología y discurso. Una introducción multidisciplinaria. Barcelona: Ariel, 2003

        ·        Italian translation, Ideologie. Discorso e costruzione sociale del pregiudizio. A cura di Paola Villano. Roma: Carocci.

32. Dominación étnica y racismo discursivo en España y América Latina . Barcelona: Gedisa, 2003.
        Extended English version: Discourse and racism in Spain and Latin America. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2005.

33. Discurso, Notícia e Ideologia. Estudos na Análise Crítica do Discurso. Porto: Campo das Letras, 2005. (Collection of articles translated from English).

34.  Context. A multidisciplinary theory. In preparation.

B. Books with other authors

1. (with J. Ihwe, J.S. Petöfi & H. Rieser)

Zur Bestimmung narrativer Strukturen aud der Grundlage von Textgrammatiken . Hamburg: Buske Verlag, 1972. Second edition, 1974.

2. (with Walter Kintsch):

Strategies of discourse comprehension. New York: Academic Press, 1983.

- This book was awarded the Outstanding Book Award of the American Association of Educational Psychology, AERA, in 1984.

3. (with Iván Rodrigo M.) Análisis del discurso social y político. Quito (Ecuador): Abya-Yala, 1999.

C. Edited books

1. Pragmatics of language and literature . Amsterdam: North Holland, 1976.

2. (with Janos S. Petöfi)

Grammars and descriptions. Berlin/New York: de Gruyter, 1977.

3. Handbook of Discourse Analysis . 4 vols. I. Disciplines of discourse . II. Dimensions of discourse . III. Discourse and dialogue . IV. Discourse analysis in society . London: Academic Press, 1985.

4. Discourse and literature . Amsterdam: Benjamins. 1985.

        ·        Spanish version, Discurso y literatura. Nuevos planteamientos sobre el análisis de los géneros literarios. Madrid, Visor, 1999.

5. Discourse and communication. Berlin/New York: de Gruyter, 1985.

6. (with Iris M. Zavala and Myriam Díaz-Diocaretz)

Approaches to discourse, poetics and psychiatry . Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1987.

7. (with Geneva Smitherman-Donaldson)

Discourse and Discrimination. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 1988.

8. Discourse Studies. A multidisciplinary introduction. 2 vols. London: Sage, 1997.

      ·        Spanish translation, Estudios del discurso. Barcelona/Buenos Aires: Gedisa, 1999-2000.

        ·        Polish translation, Dyskurs jako struktura i proces. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN,  2001.

9. (with Ruth Wodak) Racism at the Top. Parliamentary Discourses on Ethnic Issues in Six European Countries. Klagenfurt: Drava Verlag, 2000.

10. (with Martin Pütz and JoAnne Neff-van Aertselaer, Eds.) Communicating Ideologies. Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Language, Discourse and Social Practice.  Frankfurt/Main: Peter Lang, 2004.

11. Racismo y Discurso en América Latina. Barcelona: Gedisa (in preparation).(Also an English and Portuguese translation of this book will be published.

Articles

For references to some (230) articles, papers, etc. (and translations into Spanish and other languages) see Publication list on homepage

Books Published/translated into Spanish

1. Texto y contexto . Madrid: Catedra, 1980.

2. La ciencia del texto . Barcelona/Buenos Aires: Paidos, 1983.

3. Las estructuras y funciones del discurso . Mexico: Siglo XXI, 1981. (7a Edicion, 1991).

4. La noticia como discurso. Comprensión, estructura y producción de la información. Barcelona, Paidos, 1990.

5. Prensa, racismo y poder . Mexico: Universidad IberoAmericana, 1995.

6. Racismo y análisis crítico de los medios. Barcelona: Paidos, 1997.

7. Ideología. Una aproximación multidisciplinaria . Barcelona/Buenos Aires: Gedisa, 1999.

8. (Org.). Estudios del discurso. 2 vols. Barcelona/Buenos Aires: Gedisa, 2000.

9. De la poética generativa hasta el análisis crítico del discurso. Artículos seleccionados 1976-1998. Amsterdam: Universidad de Amsterdam. Enero 1999.

10. (con Iván Rodrigo M.) Análisis del discurso social y político. Quito, Ecuador: Abya-Yala, 1999.
11. Ideología y discurso. Una introducción multidisciplinaria. Barcelona: Ariel, 2003.

12. Racismo y discurso de las élites. Barcelona: Gedisa, 2003.

13. Dominación Étnica y Racismo Discursivo España y América Latina. Barcelona: Gedisa, 2003.

Lectures/Conferences

Inviated lectures have been given in the following cities (countries):

A Corunha (Spain), Aix en Provence (France), Alcoy (Spain), Alicante (Spain), Amsterdam (Holland), Ann Arbor (MI, USA), Antwerp (Belgium), Asunción (Paraguay), Athens (Greece), Austin (TX, USA), Barcelona (Spain), Belem (Brazil), Belo Horizonte (Brazil), Bergen (Norway), Berkeley (USA),  Berlin (Germany), Bielefeld (Germany), Bir Zeit (Palestine), Birmingham (UK), Bogotá (Colombia), Bologna (Italy), Boulder (CO, USA), Bratislava (Slovakia), Bristol (UK), Brussel (Belgium), Bucharest (Romania), Budapest (Hungary), Buenos Aires (Argentina), Cádiz (Spain), Cairo (Egypt), Campinas (Brazil), Cali (Colombia), Carácas (Venezuela), Cardiff (UK), Cartagena de Indias (Colombia), Colchester (UK), Concepción (Chile), Copenhagen (Denmark), Córdoba (Argentina), Córdoba (Spain), Donostia (San Sebastián, Spain), Duisburg (Germany), Düsseldorf (Germany), Ferrara (Italy), Firenze (Italy), Florianópolis (Brazil), Ghent (Belgium), Genova (Italy), Georgetown (DC, USA), Granada (Spain), Guatemala City (Guatemala), Guayaquil (Ecuador), Helsinki (Finland), Jerusalem (Israel), Jyväskylä (Finland), Karlsruhe (Germany), Konstanz (Germany), Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), La Habana (Cuba), La Laguna, Tenerife (Canarias, Spain), La Paz (Bolivia), La Serena (Chile), Lancaster (UK), Landau (Germany), Leuven (Belgium), Lima (Peru), Linköping (Sweden), Lisboa (Portugal), London (UK), Lyon (France), Los Angeles (CA, USA), Maceió (Brazil), Madison (WI, USA), Madrid (Spain), Münster (Germany), Málaga (Spain), Managua (Nicaragua), Medellín (Colombia), Mérida (México), México (Mexico), Monterrey (Mexico), Montevideo (Uruguay), Montpellier (France), Montreal (Canada), Moscow (Russia), Murcia (Spain), Mysore (India), Nashville (TN, USA), Oaxaca (Mexico), Oporto (Portugal), Oslo (Norway), Oxford (UK), Paris (France), Parma (Italy), Philadelphia (PA, USA), Pittsburgh (PA, USA), Port of Spain (Trinidad & Tobago), Porto Alegre (Brazil), Praha (Czech Republic), Puebla (Mexico), Rabat (Morocco), Recife (Brazil), Rio de Janeiro (Brasil), Rio Piedras (Puerto Rico), Rome (Italy), Salamanca (Spain), Salvador de Bahia (Brazil), San Diego (CA, USA), Santa Cruz (CA, USA), San José (Costa Rica), Quito (Ecuador),  San Salvador (El Salvador), Santiago (Chile), Santiago de Compostela (Spain), Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic), São Paulo (Brasil), Seoul (Korea), Sevilla (Spain), Siena (Italy), Sion (Switzerland), St. Louis (MI, USA), Stockholm (Sweden), Syracuse (NY, USA), Tampere (Finland), Tel Aviv (Israel), Tegucigalpa (Honduras), Temuco (Chile), Toronto (Canada), Toulouse (France), Trivandrum (India), Trondheim (Norway), Tucumán (Argentina), Turku (Finland), Uppsala (Sweden), Urbino (Italy), Valencia (Spain), Valladolid (Spain), Valparaiso (Chile), Victoria (Canada), Vienna (Austria), Voss (Norway), Warsaw (Poland).

Selection of recent invited (plenary) lectures and conferences

Discourse and ideology. Int. Conference Society of Text and Discourse. Lyon, Francia, Julio 2000.

Discurso y cognición social. Congreso Int. de la Asociación Latinoamericana de Estudios del discurso (ALED), Recife, Brasil, 2001

Discourse and knowledge. Int. Congress of Language, Literature and Culture. Kuala Lumpur, Malasia,  2001

Discourse, Knowledge and Education. International Conference on Discourse and Education. Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, 2001.

Text and Context – 25 Years Later. Seoul Korea, May 2001.

Discourse and context. Int. Pragmatics Conference. Budapest, Hungria, 2000, and Conference on Language and Literature, Cairo, Egipto, 2002.

Discsourse, knowledge and ideology. Congress LAUD,  Koblenz-Landau, Alemania, May 2002.

Language and Knowledge in Social Psychology. International Conference of Social Psychology of Language. Hong Kong, 2002.

Contextual knowledge management in discourse production. Society for Text and Discourse, Madrid, July, 2003.

Political implicatures. CDA Congress, Copenhagen, May 2003.

Racismo y discurso. Congreso Int. de la Asociación Latinoamericana de Estudios del discurso (ALED), Puebla, México, Octubre, 2003.

Discourse, racism and textbooks. APAC Conference, Barcelona, 27 de Febrero de 2004.

Racism and textbooks. International Conference on Human Rights in Textbooks. Estambul, Abril 2004.

Ideology and discourse analysis. Congreso on ideology. Oxford, Septembere 17-18, 2004.

Macro Contexts. 1rst International Conference on Discourse and Intercultural Relations. University of Murcia, September 23rd-25th, 2004

Identidades Políticas en Debates Parlamentarios. Congreso “El Joc de les Identitats en els Discursos Orals,” Tardor 2004, Barcelona, UPF, 1-2 de Octubre, 2004.

Racism, discourse and social cognition. Conference Social Psychology of Racism, London School of Economics, London, March 15, 2005.

Racismo y prensa. Congreso Inmigración, Murcia, 19 de marzo de 2005.

Discours et contexte. Congrès Compréhension du discourse. Université de Montpellier, 10 de Abril de 2005

La reproducción del racismo. El papel de la prensa. Congreso sobre inmigración, Almería, 20-21 de Abril de 2005.

Text and context revisited. Congress Critical Discourse Analysis, Palermo, Italy, May 7, 2005.

Discourse and Manipulation. CDA Congress, Athens, Greece, May 20-21, 2005.

The current state of discourse studies. International Congress, 10th Anniversary IULA, UPF, Junio 16, de 2005.

Contexto. Congreso de la Asociación Latinoamericana de Estudios del Discurso (ALED), Santiago de Chile, Septiembre 5-19, 2005.

Racismo y discurso. Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, December 2005

Racismo y discurso. Universidad de Honduras, Tegucigalpa, December 2005

Racismo y prensa. Universidad Rafael Landivar, Guatemala, December 2005.

Forewords

1. María Cristina Martínez, Análisis del discurso. Cohesión, coherencias,y estructura semántica de los textos expositivos. Cali (Colombia), Universidad del Valle, Editorial Facultad de Humanidades, 1994.

2. Lupicinio Íñiguez Rueda (Ed.), Análisis del discurso. Manual para las ciencias sociales. Barcelona: Editorial UOC, 2003.

3. Rosa Artigas, Joan Bellès & Maria Grau, Tipotext. Una tipologñia de textos de no ficció. Barcelona, Direcció General de Política Lingüística. Eumo Editorial, 2003.

4. Sandra Soler Castillo, Discurso y Género en historias de vida. Una investigación de relatos de hombres y mujeres en Bogotá. Bogotá: Caro y Cuervo, 2004.

5. Anamaría Harvey (comp.), En torno al Discurso. Contribuciones de América Latina. Santiago de Chile: Ediciones de la Universidad Católica de Chile, 2004.

6. Pascal Marchand (dir.), Psychologie sociale des médias. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2004.

7. Adriana Bolivar (Ed.), Análisis del discurso. Por qué y para qué. Caracas: El Nacional, 2006.

Languages

Native: Dutch

Fluent: English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese

Reading (and some speaking) knowledge: Catalan, Italian, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian.

Founder/Editor of:

Journals

1. Poetics . International Journal for the Theory of Literature. The Hague: Mouton, and later Amsterdam: North Holland. 1971-1979.

 2. TTT . Interdisciplinair Tijdschrift voor Taal- en Tekstwetenschap (TTT. Interdisciplinary Journal for Linguistics and Discourse Studies). Deventer: Bohn, Scheltema & Holkema, and Dordrecht: Foris. 1981-1986.

3. TEXT . An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Discourse. Amsterdam/Berlin: Mouton, 1981-1997.

4. Discourse and Society . International Journal for the study of discourse and communication in their social, cultural and political contexts . London: Sage Publications, 1990-

5. Discourse Studies. Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Text and Talk. London, Sage, 1999-

6. Discurso & Sociedad. Revista Multidisciplinaria de internet. 2005-

7. Discourse & Communication. London: Sage. 2007-

Board member of the following journals (selection):

·         Critical Discourse Studies

·         Critical Inquiry in Language Studies

·         Estudios Ingleses

·         Gragoata (Brasil)

·         Howard Journal of Communications

·         Journal of Intercultural Studies

·         Journal of Language and Politics

·         Medio & Jornalismo

·         Mots

·         Narrative Inquiry

·         Poetics

·         Poetics Today

·         Pragmatics

·         Qualitative Research in Psychology

·         Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios del Discurso

·         Revista Signos

·         Written Communication

·         Comunicação e Sociedade

Doctoral thesis supervised (in the last 10 years):

Jessika Ter Wal (Holanda), Racism in the Italian Press and Politics. Istituto Europeo, Firenze, 1997.

Shi Xu (China), Cultural representations. Analyzing discourse about the other. Universidad de Amsterdam: Facultad de Humanidades, 1997.

Ineke Mok (Holanda), Racisme in aardrijkskundeboeken (Racismo en libros de textos de geografía). Universidad de Amsterdam, Facultad de Humanidades, 1999.

Doris Martínez (Puerto Rico), El discurso periodístico sobre la guerra del Golfo Pérsico. UAM, Facultad Filosofía y Letras, 1998.

Esam N. Khalil (Egipto), Grounding in English and Arabic News Discourse. Universidad de Amsterdam. Facultad de Humanidades, 1998.

Gabriella Modan (EEUU), Claiming the City: Discourse, Ethnicity, and Class in a Gentrifying Neighborhood. Georgetown University, 1998.

Natalia Fernández (España), La violencia sexual contra la mujer y su representación en la prensa española. Universitat de Barcelona, Facultat de Filología, 2000.

Montserrat Ribas (España), Discurs parlamentari i representacions socials. Universitat de Barcelona, Facultat de Filología, 2002.

Mariana Achugar (Uruguay, EEUU), La construcción de la memoria en el discurso militar uruguayo. University of California, Davis, 2002.

Fernando Prieto Ramos (España), Ethnic alterity in the News: Discourse on Immigration in the Spanish and Irish Press, 1990-2000. University of Dublin, Ireland, 2002.

Zara Simões Pinto Coelho (Portugal), Drogas em Campanhas de Prevenção: dos discursos às Ideologias. Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal, 2003.

Sandra Soler (Colombia), Discurso y género en historias de vida. UB, Junio 2003.

Cristiane Cataldi (Brasil), Divulgación sobre transgénicos en El País. UPF, Diciembre 2003.

Neyla Pardo (Colombia). Representaciones sociales sobre la impunidad en la prensa colombiana. UNED, Madrid. Octubre, 2004.

Large (Funded) Research Projects

·        Text Processing (Netherlands Research Council, ZWO), 1976-1980.

·        Racism and Conversation (Netherlands Research Council, ZWO), 1983-1987.

·        Racism at the Top (with Ruth Wodak) (Austrian Ministry of Education, 1996-2000).

·        Discourse and Knowledge (Ministry of Education, Spain  - Ramón y Cajal).

·        Discourse and Racism in Latin America (not funded).