Product Description
A revised, updated edition of S. I. Hayakawa’s classic work on semantics. He discusses the role of language, its many functions, and how language shapes our thinking. Introduction by Robert MacNeil; Index.
About the Author
Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa (July 18, 1906 – February 27, 1992) was a Canadian-born American academic and political figure. He was an English professor, served as president of San Francisco State University and then a United States Senator from California from 1977 to 1983. Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, he was educated in the public schools of Calgary, Alberta and Winnipeg, Manitoba; received his undergraduate degree from the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg in 1927; graduate degrees in English from McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, in 1928, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1935.
Alan Hayakawa received his B.A. from Reed College in Portland, Oregon. He has worked as a reporter and editor for
The Oregonian in Portland, as a Washington correspondent with Newhouse News Service in Washington, D.C., and is currently with
The Patriot-News of Harrisburg,PA. Alan started at
The Patriot-News as a writing coach and now manages the newspaper's information-on-request system called InsideLine (a telephone-based information system known generically as audiotext).