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Language & Linguistics
University of Essex
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Prof. Monika Schmid Language & Linguistics University of Essex & University of Groningen
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Dr. Karin Zwaan
Centre for Migration Law Radboud University Nijmegen P.O. Box 9049
6500KK Nijmegen
the Netherlands
+31 24 361.2934

E-mail: larg@essex.ac.uk

Jan ten Thije

Jan ten Thije photoExpertise:

  • Intercultural Communication - Institutional Discourse Analysis - (Receptive) Multilingualism

Qualifications:

  • BA Linguistics, Dutch Language & Culture (Amsterdam)

  • PhD (Utrecht)

Dr. Jan D. ten Thije is assistant professor at the Utrecht Institute for Linguistics and lecturer at the Department of Dutch in the University of Utrecht. His main fields of research concern institutional discourse in multicultural and international settings, receptive multilingualism, intercultural training, language education and functional pragmatics.

Dr. ten Thije previously was an associated professor (‘Hochschuldozent’) at the Department for Intercultural Communication at Chemnitz University of Technology (1996-2002), visiting professor at the Department for Applied Linguistics at the University of Vienna (2001), and lecturer and researcher at the Department for General Linguistics,  University of Amsterdam (1994-1996). He studied General Linguistics and Dutch Language and Culture in Amsterdam (University of Amsterdam) and received his PhD at Utrecht University (1994) with research focusing on  intercultural discourse in advisory institutes.

He coordinates the Masters programme in Intercultural Communication for the Department of Dutch at Utrecht University. Currently, Jan D. ten Thije is president of the Dutch AILA affiliate: the Association Néerlandaise de Linguistique Appliquée (ANéLA) (Vereniging voor Toegepaste Taalwetenschap).

He cooperates with De Taalstudio of Amsterdam regarding research into Language Analysis for the Determination of Origins (LADO), for instance, with respect to methods eliciting spontaneous and natural speech for the purpose of LADO.

Jan ten Thije's webpage

Email:

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Related Publications

Cited as:    "Thije, Jan D. ten."

Fc. (with Sione Twilt, Ludwien Meeuwesen & Hans Harmsen.) Mutual (Mis)understanding in informal interpreting in consultation

2009. Stellingname contra-expertise. [Legal report concerning the prerequisites for reliable contra-expertise in the Netherlands.]

2008. Language politics at European borders: The language analysis interview of asylum seekers in the Netherlands. In Georges Lüdi, Kurt Seelmann, Beat Sitter-Liver (Eds.), Sprachenvielfalt und Kulturfrieden Sprachminderheit – Einsprachigkeit – Mehrsprachigkeit: Probleme und Chancen sprachlicher Vielfalt. Fribourg: Paulus-Verlag / Academic Press und Stuttgart: Kohlhammer Verlag, 227-251.

2007. Taalanalyse in een meertalige asielprocedure. In themanumer ‘In Gesprek’. Toegepaste taalkunde in Artikelen, 71-84. Appeared also in Zwaan, Karin (red.), De taalanalyse in de Nederlandse asielprocedure. Een juridische en linguïstische verkenning. Nijmegen: Wolf Legal Publishers, 121-135.

2007. (with Ludger Zeevaert, eds.) Receptive Multilingualism: Linguistic analyses, language policies and didactic concepts. (Hamburg SAtudies on Multilingualism 6.) Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

2006. (with Kristin Bührig, eds.) Beyond Misunderstanding. The linguistic analysis of intercultural communication. (Pragmatics and Beyond New Series 144) Amsterdam: John Benjamins.