Hayakawa, S. I. (Samuel Ichiyé), 1906-1992
Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa (July 18, 1906 – February 27, 1992) was a Canadian-born American academic and politician. A linguist, psychologist, semanticist, teacher, professor, and author by trade, he served as president of San Francisco State University from 1968 to 1973 and then as U.S. Senator from California from 1977 to 1983.
Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Hayakawa was educated in the public schools of Calgary, Alberta, and Winnipeg, Manitoba before earning a B.A. from the University of Manitoba, M.A. from McGill University, and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He served as an instructor at the University of Wisconsin from 1936 to 1939, an instructor at the Armour Institute of Technology (Illinois Institute of Technology from 1940 on) from 1939 to 1948, a lecturer at the University of Chicago from 1950 to 1955, and a professor at San Francisco State College from 1955 to 1968. After witnessing the ruthless efficiency of the Nazi propaganda machine that aided Adolf Hitler’s rise to power, Hayakawa was inspired to write Language in Action (1941), a book that cemented his reputation as a semanticist. Selected by the Book of the Month Club, it was eventually revised as Language in Thought and Action (1949) and remained a popular text for many decades.
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