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teun a. van dijk

teun adrianus van dijk -lrb- born may 7 , 1943 , naaldwijk , the netherlands -rrb- , is a scholar in the fields of text linguistics , discourse analysis and critical discourse analysis -lrb- cda -rrb- .
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 ' -lrb- politicians , journalists , scholars , writers -rrb- , the study of news in the press , and on the theories of ideology , context and knowledge .
he founded six international journals : `` poetics '' , `` text '' -lrb- now called `` text & talk '' -rrb- , `` discourse & society '' -lsb- http://www.uk.sagepub.com/journals/journal200873] , `` 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 .
