Name Rob Grootendorst Role Writer | ||
Died 2000, Amsterdam, Netherlands Books Argumentation - Communication - and Falla, Argumentation: Analysis - Evaluatio, Argumentation ‑ Across the Lines, Speech Acts in Argument, Handbook of Argument | ||
Education University of Amsterdam | ||
Rob Grootendorst (11 February 1944, Schiedam – 23 February 2000, Amsterdam) was a Dutch communication and argumentation theory scholar. He was professor for Dutch speech communication at the University of Amsterdam. His contributions to the argumentation field include the co-foundation of the pragma-dialectic school in argumentation theory.
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He also wrote several books on the life and works of the Dutch writer and politician Theo Thijssen.
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. They jointly founded the International Society for the Study of Argumentation in 1986.