Teun A. van Dijk is a Visiting Professor atUniversitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. From 1980 to 2006 he held a personalchair as Professor of Discourse Studies at the University of Amsterdam. A worldleading scholar of discourse studies and author of over 250 books and articles,he edits the SAGE journals Disourse &Society, Discourse Studies, and Discourseand Communication.

• IntroductionTheoretical FrameworkPolitical DiscourseCorporate DiscourseAcademic DiscourseEducational DiscourseMedia DiscourseConclusions

Teun A. van Dijk is a Visiting Professor atUniversitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. From 1980 to 2006 he held a personalchair as Professor of Discourse Studies at the University of Amsterdam. A worldleading scholar of discourse studies and author of over 250 books and articles,he edits the SAGE journals Disourse &Society, Discourse Studies, and Discourseand Communication.

• IntroductionTheoretical FrameworkPolitical DiscourseCorporate DiscourseAcademic DiscourseEducational DiscourseMedia DiscourseConclusions

Teun A. van Dijk is a Visiting Professor atUniversitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. From 1980 to 2006 he held a personalchair as Professor of Discourse Studies at the University of Amsterdam. A worldleading scholar of discourse studies and author of over 250 books and articles,he edits the SAGE journals Disourse &Society, Discourse Studies, and Discourseand Communication.

• IntroductionTheoretical FrameworkPolitical DiscourseCorporate DiscourseAcademic DiscourseEducational DiscourseMedia DiscourseConclusions