Theodoor Jacob "Theo" van Leeuwen FAHA (born 1947)[1] is a Dutch linguist and one of the main developers of the sub-field of social semiotics.[2][3] He is also known for his contributions to the study of Multimodality; he wrote with Gunther Kress Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual Design, one of the most influential books on the topic.[4]
Career
editVan Leeuwen obtained a BA in scriptwriting and direction from the Netherlands Film Academy in Amsterdam in 1972. He married an Australian and moved to Australia later in the 1970s.[1] Van Leeuwen worked as a director, script writer, and producer for film and television in both Holland and Australia.[5] Van Leeuwen has also been noted as a former jazz pianist.[6] In 1982, he finished a master's degree at Macquarie University in Sydney with a thesis on intonation. In 1992, he finished his PhD in linguistics at University of Sydney with a thesis on uniting linguistics and social theory.[1] Van Leeuwen has taught communication theory at Macquarie University and the London College of Printing, and has taught courses at universities in Amsterdam, Vancouver, Vienna, Madrid, Stockholm, Copenhagen and Auckland. He was the dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Technology, Sydney until 2013, when he took a position at the University of Southern Denmark.
Van Leeuwen was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2007.[7]
Selected bibliography
edit- Kress, Gunther R., & van Leeuwen, Theo (1996). Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual Design. New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-31915-3.
- Speech, Music, Sound. (1999) London: Macmillan. ISBN 031222530X
- Introducing Social Semiotics (2005) London & New York: Routledge ISBN 0-415-24943-0
- Discourse and Practice: New Tools for Critical Discourse Analysis (2008) Oxford University Press ISBN 0195323319
- The Language of Colour: An Introduction (2011) London & New York: Routledge ISBN 0415495385
References
edit- ^ a b c Biography in the introduction of Social Semiotics: Key Figures, New Directions, pp.11–12
- ^ "How a car's horn says: "Buy me"". BBC News. 14 January 2005. Retrieved 8 June 2010.
- ^ Svennevig, Jan (2020). Språklig samhandling: Innføring i kommunikasjonsteori og diskursanalyse (in Norwegian Bokmål) (3rd ed.). Cappelen Damm Akademisk. p. 59. ISBN 978-82-02-62618-1. OCLC 1374355118. Wikidata Q130324382.
- ^ Bateman, John; Wildfeuer, Janina; Hiippala, Tuomo (2017). Multimodality : Foundations, Research and Analysis – A Problem-Oriented Introduction. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 978-3-11-047942-3.
- ^ "Emeritus Professor Theo van Leeuwen". University of Technology, Sydney. n.d. Retrieved 11 July 2015.
- ^ Djonov, Emilia (2013). "Semiotic Profile: Theo van Leeuwen". SemiotiX. Retrieved 11 July 2015.
- ^ "Fellow Profile: Theodoor van Leeuwen". Australian Academy of the Humanities. Retrieved 17 June 2024.
