Samuel I. Hayakawa: Semantics and Cultural Understanding in US

• Main Authors: Yin-Shi Wu, 吳穎錫
• Other Authors: 李本京
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2014
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/2qgp7q

博士 === 淡江大學 === 美洲研究所博士班 === 102 === Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa, who was the Senator, semantics professor and ex-president of San Francisco State College in United States. He contributed greatly to the knowledge of General Semantics and addressed the importance of English in the society. In this Ph.D. thesis, the author presents the importance of Hayakawa’s semantics that affect not only the application of linguistic knowledge but also the total response to social events with true words’ meaning. S.I. Hayakawa is an international scholar, so he promoted successfully Alfred Korzybski’s semantics of non-Aristotelian system not only in the U.S. but in the world. Moreover there many scholars who applied Hayakawa’s Semantics into their research of linguistic and English learning; it can be seen that Hayakawa has had a significant influence in U.S. academics. In fact, Hayakawa’s semantics needs to be analyzed through its linguistic applications that are related to culture and language to consider its vital influences in linguistics in society.