Professionally, Hayakawa was a linguist, psychologist, semanticist, teacher and writer.
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Hayakawa was a semanticist, U.S. senator, and controversial president of San Francisco State.
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A young semanticist in Casey Stengel's house in Glendale, Calif?
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Day after day, newspapers and TV showed the Japanese-American semanticist with his academic Bushido fully aroused.
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Hayakawa was an important semanticist.
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As a semanticist, I am aware that we can follow the concept that a word means to me what I want it to mean, not what is the general concept for that word.
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The political novices included a 70-year-old semanticist in California, a former astronaut in New Mexico, a rancher in Wyoming and a tax lawyer in Utah.
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A semanticist with an excellent reputation among academics, Hayakawa was approaching retirement age in 1968 when he was made acting president of San Francisco State College.
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A specialist in the study of meaning
Semantics (from Ancientu00A0Greek: u03C3u03B7u03BCu03B1u03BDu03C4u03B9u03BAu03CCu03C2 su0113mantiku00F3s, "significant") is the study of meaningu2014in language, programming languages, formal logics, and semiotics. It focuses on the relationship between signifiersu2014like words, phrases, signs, and symbolsu2014and what they stand for, their denotation.