Jacob Louis Mey (30 October 1926 – 10 February 2023) was a Dutch-born Danish professor of linguistics, specializing in pragmatics.
He was professor emeritus in the Institute of Language and Communication at the University of Southern Denmark, after retiring in 1996.
[1][2] Mey received his PhD in Linguistics from the University of Copenhagen in 1960, supervised by Louis Hjelmslev.
[2] Until 2010, he was chief editor of the Journal of Pragmatics, which he founded in 1977 with Hartmut Haberland.
[2] Mey died in Austin, Texas on 10 February 2023, at the age of 96.