Robert de Beaugrande

Robert-Alain de Beaugrande (March 4, 1946 - June 6, 2008) was a leading textual linguist and speech analyst, considered one of the most celebrated figures in both disciplines. Beaugrande was one of the founders of the Vienna School of Textual Linguistics (Department of Linguistics of the University of Vienna, in 1981 published the manual Introduction to text linguistics in collaboration with Wolfgang U. Dressler). He played a fundamental role in the consolidation of critical discourse analysis.

He studied postgraduate studies in German and English philology at the Free University of Berlin in 1971. In 1976, he earned a doctorate in comparative and linguistic literature at the University of California, Irvine. From 1978 to 1991, he was a full professor of English at the University of Florida. From 1991 to 1997 he taught English linguistics at the University of Vienna. He was also an English lecturer at the University of Botswana in Gaborone and a senior lecturer in English and English linguistics at the University of Florida in Gainesville. Later he was present in many other universities in Asia, the Middle East and Latin America. Outstanding works

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