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Jan D. ten Thije is professor emeritus Intercultural Communication at the Departement of Languages, Literature and Communication

He previously was an associated professor (‘Hochschuldozent’) at the Department for Intercultural Communication at Chemnitz University of Technology (1996-2002), visiting professor at theDepartment for Applied Linguistics at Vienna University (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 intercultural discourse in advisory institutes.

His main fields of research concern institutional discourse in multicultural and international settings, receptive multilingualism, intercultural training, language education and functional pragmatics.

He coordinated between 2002 and 2019 the Master programme Intercultural Communication amd is Teaching Fellow at the Department Languages, Litertaure and Communication at Utrecht University.

He  is editor of the  European Journal for Applied Linguistics (EuJAL) published by Mouton de Gruyter and Series Editor of Utrecht Series in language and Communication  Brill Publications (Leiden).