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'''Theodoor Jacob "Theo" van Leeuwen''' (born 1947, [[The Netherlands]])<ref name=bio>[https://books.google.com/books?id=h2esBwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false 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>

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 [[Sidney]] with a thesis on [[intonation]]. In 1992, he finished his PhD in linguistics at [[University of Sydney]] with a thesis on brininguniting linguistics and social theory together.<ref name=bio/> Van Leeuwen has taught [[communication theory]] at Macquarie University and the London College of Printing, and has taught courses at the Universities of 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]].

==Selected bibliography==