SI Hayakawa
| S. I. Hayakawa | |
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United States Senator from California |
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In office January 2, 1977 – January 3, 1983 |
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| Preceded by | John V. Tunney |
| Succeeded by | Pete Wilson |
| President of San Francisco State University | |
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In office November 26, 1968 – July 10, 1973 |
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| Preceded by | Robert Smith |
| Succeeded by | Paul Romberg |
| Personal details | |
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Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa July 18, 1906 Vancouver, Canada |
| Died | February 27, 1992 (aged 85) Greenbrae, California, U.S. |
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Democratic (Before 1973) Republican (1973–1992) |
| Spouse(s) | Margedant Peters |
| Children | 3 |
| Education |
University of Manitoba (BA) McGill University (MA) University of Wisconsin, Madison (PhD) |
Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa (July 18, 1906 – February 27, 1992) was a Canadian-born American academic and politician of Japanese ancestry. A professor of English, he served as president of San Francisco State University, 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, and received an undergraduate degree from the University of Manitoba in 1927 and graduate degrees in English from McGill University in 1928 and the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1935.
Professionally, Hayakawa was a linguist, psychologist, semanticist, teacher, and writer. He was an instructor at the University of Wisconsin from 1936 to 1939 and at the Armour Institute of Technology (now Illinois Institute of Technology) from 1939 to 1948.
His first book on semantics, Language in Thought and Action, was published in 1949 as an expansion of the earlier work, Language in Action, written since 1938 and published in 1941 to be a Book-of-the-Month Club selection. It is currently in its fifth edition and has greatly helped popularize Alfred Korzybski's general semantics and semantics in general, while semantics or theory of meaning was overwhelmed by mysticism, propagandism and even scientism. In the preface, Hayakawa cautioned:
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