Rob Grootendorst (11 February 1944 in
Schiedam
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– 23 February 2000 in
Amsterdam
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) was a Dutch
communication
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and
argumentation theory
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scholar. He was professor for Dutch speech communication at the
University of Amsterdam
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. His contributions to the argumentation field include the co-foundation of the
pragma-dialectic school in argumentation theory.
He also wrote several books on the life and works of the Dutch writer and politician
Theo Thijssen
Theodorus Johannes Thijssen (Amsterdam, 16 June 1879 – Amsterdam, 23 December 1943) was a Dutch writer, teacher and Socialism, socialist politician. He is best known for the book ''Kees de Jongen''.
Biography
Theo Thijssen, the oldest child o ...
.
Biography
Grootendorst was a teacher at an elementary school in the 1960s. He studied
Dutch studies at the University of Amsterdam since 1980, and became a Ph.D. in 1982 in Speech Communication. The dissertation was jointly written with
Frans H. van Eemeren
Frans Hendrik van Eemeren (born 7 April 1946, Helmond) is a Dutch scholar, professor in the Department of Speech Communication, Argumentation Theory and Rhetoric at the University of Amsterdam. He is noted for his Pragma-dialectics theory, an arg ...
. They jointly founded the
International Society for the Study of Argumentation in 1986.
Selected works
*''Argumentation, Communication, and Fallacies: A Pragma-Dialectical Perspective'' (Hillsdale: Erlbaum, 1992), with van Eemeren
*''Fundamentals of Argumentation Theory: A Handbook of Historical Backgrounds and Contemporary Developments'' (Mahwah: Erlbaum, 1996), with van Eemeren
Notes
References
* Hans V. Hansen (2000
Rob Grootendorst. In Memoriam. 1944-2000 ''
Informal Logic
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, vol 20, No 2. pp. 203–204
In memoriam Rob Grootendorst, Theo Thijssen museum
1944 births
2000 deaths
Linguists from the Netherlands
Communication theorists
People from Schiedam
University of Amsterdam alumni
University of Amsterdam faculty
Dutch logicians
20th-century linguists
20th-century Dutch philosophers
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