28.1487, Featured Linguist: Osamu Sawada

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LINGUIST List: Vol-28-1487. Fri Mar 24 2017. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 28.1487, Featured Linguist: Osamu Sawada

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Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2017 12:40:09
From: LINGUIST List [linguist at linguistlist.org]
Subject: Featured Linguist: Osamu Sawada

 Dear subscribers,

We are pleased to present to you our next featured linguist of the 2017 Fund
Drive: Osamu Sawada! Read his story and more on our blog or on our fund drive
web page:

http://funddrive.linguistlist.org/

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I grew up in the family of linguists (my father is a linguist, my mother used
to be a school teacher), so it is not a coincidence that I became a linguist.
(My younger brother also became a linguist.) However, looking back, I see that
there were several important turning points and experiences that lead me to
the field of linguistics.

I was born and grew up in Japan, but when I was 10, I had the chance to spend
a year in Boston with my family. There, we had many positive experiences
interacting with people/students from various cultural and linguistic
backgrounds. My brother and I went to a public school, and the atmosphere was
one of respect for diversity. Thinking back now, this positive experience
affects my stance as a scholar/teacher.

When I returned to Japan, however, the center of my daily life gradually
shifted to tennis (soft tennis). In high school, I participated in national
athletic meetings, and/but I neglected my school studies. I did, however,
learn the importance of continuation and preparation through tennis.

It was in a rounin period, ‘a preparation period between schools’ that I
studied in a responsible way with a true spirit of inquiry. I became
interested in the grammars of English and Old Japanese. After being accepted
into Waseda University, I continued playing tennis, but at the same time, I
took various linguistics courses, including syntax, pragmatics, and functional
linguistics. Although I also earned a teacher’s license, I felt that I wanted
to study linguistics further, and I decided to enter graduate school.

(...)

Read more:
http://blog.linguistlist.org/fund-drive/featured-linguist-joao-costa

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