Kennosuke Ezawa
Kennosuke Ezawa ( Japanese 江 沢 建 之 助 , Ezawa Kennosuke ; born October 8, 1929 in Tokyo Prefecture ) is a Japanese linguist and author .
Life
Kennosuke Ezawa studied from 1949 to 1952 German and then philosophy at Keio University in Tokyo. After successfully completing his degree, he took on a teaching position as a lecturer for German at the same university.
In 1958 Ezawa finally came to Germany, where he initially continued his studies in Freiburg im Breisgau . He received his doctorate in 1969 under Eberhard Zwirner in Cologne with a dissertation on phonetics .
Ezawa worked from 1971 to 1994 for more than two decades as an academic (senior) councilor for linguistics at the University of Tübingen . Scientific teaching and research as visiting professor at the Free University of Berlin , the Keiō University in Tokyo and from 1993 to 1994 at the Humboldt University in Berlin lay in between.
In 2000, Ezawa founded the East-West Society for Linguistic and Cultural Research, as its president he still functions today.
Kennosuke Ezawa is the father of the artist Kota Ezawa .
Publications
- Language system and speech norm. Studies on Coserius' language norm theory , Niemeyer Max, 1985
- Linguistics beyond structuralism , Narr Francke Attempto, 2002
- Georg von der Gabelentz: A biographical reading book , Gunter Narr, 2013
- A Japanese in Germany: The 'moderate' Germans , Iudicium, 2006
Web links
- Ezawa, Kennosuke 江 沢 建 之 助 (* 1929), linguist and university lecturer 語 学者 at das-japanische-gedaechtnis.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ezawa, Kennosuke |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 江 沢 建 之 助 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese linguist and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 8, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tokyo prefecture |