Was the creator of the science professor text Discourse Studies at the University of Amsterdam until 2004, and is a professor at the University Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona since 1999. Bachelor of the Free University of Amsterdam and University of Amsterdam, doctoró in the last university in 1972 with a thesis on the grammar of the text.

Other areas of research in discourse studies have been literary theory, pragmatic speech, psychology of discourse processing, news, racist discourse, ideology, knowledge and context - areas in which he published several books.

It is one of the founders of critical discourse analysis and was founding editor of Poetics magazine, TEXT, Discourse & Society, and Discourse Studies - of which still publishes the last two - and is also founder of the Internet journal Discourse & Company. nnovador and pioneer in text linguistics, which deals in the book Text and context (1977). His work also focuses on the analysis of the structure, the production and reception of the news information concerning ethnic, racism, cultural identity, etc.. Analyzes the discursive construction of several variants of speech and racist prejudices related to migration, multiculturalism, etc.. Also, studying the discourse of power, cognitive fixation of belief. His latest books are about context and knowledge.