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'''Theo Van Leeuwen''' is the dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the [[University of Technology, Sydney]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/read-all-about-it-to-hell-with-free-speech-and-long-live-the-sponsors-20090527-bnm3.html|title=Read all about it: to hell with free speech and long live the sponsors|date=28 May 2009|work=[[Sydney Morning Herald]]|accessdate=8 June 2010 | first=Elizabeth | last=Farrelly}}</ref>

'''Theodoor Jacob "Theo" van Leeuwen''' {{Post-nominals|country=AUS|FAHA}} (born 1947)<ref name=bio>[https://books.google.com/books?id=h2esBwAAQBAJ Biography] in the introduction of ''Social Semiotics: Key Figures, New Directions'', pp.11–12</ref> is a Dutch linguist and one of the main developers of the sub-field of [[social semiotics]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/4174543.stm|title=How a car's horn says: "Buy me"|date=14 January 2005|publisher=[[BBC News]]|accessdate=8 June 2010}}</ref><ref>{{Cite Q|Q130324382|author=Svennevig, Jan|page=59}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bateman |first1=John |last2=Wildfeuer |first2=Janina |last3=Hiippala |first3=Tuomo |title=Multimodality : Foundations, Research and Analysis – A Problem-Oriented Introduction |date=2017 |publisher=Walter de Gruyter |___location=Berlin |isbn=978-3-11-047942-3}}</ref>

==Career==

Van Leeuwen studied [[linguistics]] at the [[University of Sydney]], and taught [[communication theory]] at Macquarie University and the London College of Printing. He is one of the main developers of the sub-field of [[social semiotics]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/4174543.stm|title=How a car's horn says: "Buy me"|date=14 January 2005|publisher=[[BBC News]]|accessdate=8 June 2010}}</ref> He has also taught courses at the Universities of Amsterdam, Vancouver, Vienna, Madrid, Stockholm, Copenhagen and Auckland. His books include ''Introducing Social Semiotics'' and ''Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual Design'' which he co-authored with [[Gunther Kress]].

Van 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.<ref name=bio/> Van Leeuwen worked as a director, script writer, and producer for film and television in both Holland and Australia.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.uts.edu.au/staff/theo.vanleeuwen|title=Emeritus Professor Theo van Leeuwen|date=n.d.|publisher=University of Technology, Sydney|accessdate=11 July 2015}}</ref> Van Leeuwen has also been noted as a former jazz pianist.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://semioticon.com/semiotix/2013/12/semiotic-profile-theo-van-leeuwen/|title=Semiotic Profile: Theo van Leeuwen|last=Djonov|first=Emilia|year=2013|publisher=SemiotiX|access-date=11 July 2015}}</ref> In 1982, he finished a master's degree at [[Macquarie University]] in [[Sydney]] with a thesis on [[intonation (linguistics)|intonation]]. In 1992, he finished his PhD in linguistics at [[University of Sydney]] with a thesis on uniting linguistics and social theory.<ref name=bio/> 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.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Fellow Profile: Theodoor van Leeuwen |url=https://humanities.org.au/fellows/fellow-profile/?fellow_id=258 |access-date=2024-06-17 |website=Australian Academy of the Humanities |language=en-AU}}</ref>

==Selected bibliography==

*'' Kress, Gunther R., ;& Vanvan Leeuwen, Theo (1996). ''Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual Design''. New York: Routledge. {{ISBN |0-415-31915-3}}.

*''Introducing Social Semiotics'' (2005) ISBN 0-415-24943-0

* ''Speech, Music, Sound''. (1999) London: Macmillan. {{ISBN|031222530X}}

*''Kress, Gunther R. ; Van Leeuwen, Theo (1996). Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual Design. New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-31915-3.

* ''Introducing Social Semiotics'' (2005) ISBNLondon & 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}}

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