SI Hayakawa

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SI Hayakawa

Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa (born July 18, 1906 in Vancouver , Canada , †  February 27, 1992 in Greenbrae , California ) was an American psychologist , semanticist and politician . His work Language in Thought and Action , his essential contribution to the introduction to semantics, is one of the classics in this field and has been translated into numerous languages ​​(German edition: Semantics - language in thinking and acting , Schwarz & Co, Darmstadt, 1964. )

Hayakawa attended schools in his Canadian homeland in Calgary and Winnipeg . He graduated from the University of Manitoba at Winnipeg in 1927 and from McGill University in Montreal in 1928 . He then received his doctorate in 1935 to the Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin in Madison . It was there that he began his career as a university lecturer in 1936. In 1939 he moved to the Armor Institute of Technology in Chicago as a lecturer , where he stayed until 1947; then he taught at the University of Chicago (1950–1955) and at San Francisco State College (1955–1958). In San Francisco from 1968 to 1973 he also served as president of the then college, which in 1974 became today's State University .

From 1970 to 1976 Hayakawa worked as a columnist for a newspaper consortium. In 1976 he joined the Republican Party's primary for the US Senate elections in California. In a broad field of candidates he achieved a share of the vote of 38.3 percent and thus the relative majority over competitors such as the former Federal Minister Robert Finch , the Congressman Alphonzo E. Bell and ex- Vice Governor John L. Harmer . The actual election on November 2, 1976, Hayakawa won with 50.2 percent of the vote against the Democratic incumbent John V. Tunney . He then represented the state of California from January 2, 1977 to January 3, 1983 in Congress .

Hayakawa did not stand for re-election in 1982. He retired in Mill Valley and died in Greenbrae in February 1992.

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SURNAME Hayakawa, SI
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hayakawa, Samuel Ichiye (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American academic and politician
DATE OF BIRTH July 18, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Vancouver , Canada
DATE OF DEATH February 27, 1992
Place of death Greenbrae , California