Background
Makkai, Adam was born on December 16, 1935 in Budapest, Hungary. Son of John David and Rozsa Ignacz Makkai.
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Ecolinguistics recognizes the fact that different words mean different things to different people and that these differences in meaning for any given word correlate with the speaker's sex, age, education and kind of work, as well as the speaker's regional dialect. "Variationism" and a lack of absolute standards are not "incidentals" as grammatical theory construction, but are the norm for all known languages. Unlike other theories currently common, ecolinguistics pays detailed attention to the artistic use of language especially in poetry and in the translation of poetry and prose for literary purposes. Idiomaticity and metaphoric language play an equally important role in ecolinguistics. This work comprises a collection of thematically arranged articles on the field. It represents the synthesis of 25 years work by Adam Makkai, a major scholar and founder of the Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States.
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Makkai, Adam was born on December 16, 1935 in Budapest, Hungary. Son of John David and Rozsa Ignacz Makkai.
Bachelor cum laude, Harvard University, 1958. Master of Arts in Linguistics, Yale University, 1962. Doctor of Philosophy in Linguistics, Yale University, 1965.
Teacher German, French, Russian, Latin Iolani School, Honolulu, 1958-1960. Lecturer in Russian Yale University, New Haven, 1962-1963. Assistant professor English California State University, Long Beach, 1966-1967.
Assistant professor English University Illinois Chicago Circuit, 1967-1969, associate professor English, 1969-1974, professor linguistics, since 1974. Fulbright Hayes senior research professor National University Singapore, 1985-1986. Visiting scholar, professor Hong Kong Baptist College 1989, University Hong Kong, 1990-1992.
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Member Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association, Modern Language Association (chair special interest group in linguistics 1975-1978), Linguistic Society of America, Linguistic Association Canada and United States (executive director, director publications, Chairman board directors 1974-1995), Zoltan Kodaly Hungarian Cultural Society (founder, president 1969-1979).
Married Valerie June Becker, June 5, 1966 (divorced November 16, 1988. Children: Sylvia, Rebecca Rose. Married Agnes Arany, November 30, 1988.