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Robert de Beaugrande

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Austrian linguist (1946-2008)

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Robert-Alain de Beaugrande was an American text linguist and discourse analyst, one of the leading figures of the Continental tradition in the discipline. He was one of the developers of the Vienna School of Textlinguistik, and published the seminal Introduction to Text Linguistics in 1981, with Wolfgang U. Dressler.

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1984Guggenheim Fellowship

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Robert-Alain de Beaugrande was an American text linguist and discourse analyst, one of the leading figures of the Continental tradition in the discipline. He was one of the developers of the Vienna School of Textlinguistik, and published the seminal Introduction to Text Linguistics in 1981, with Wolfgang U. Dressler. He was also a major figure in the consolidation of critical discourse analysis.

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Lived 1946 to 2008 · aged 62
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