Teun Adrianus van Dijk (born May 7, 1943, Naaldwijk, the Netherlands), is a scholar in the fields of text linguistics, discourse analysis and Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA).

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.

• 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, in press

• Strategies of Discourse Comprehension. with Walter Kintsch. New York: Academic Press, 1983.