Alicja Sakaguchi (born 1954 in

Szczecin Szczecin ( , , ; ; ; or ) is the capital city, capital and largest city of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in northwestern Poland. Located near the Baltic Sea and the Poland-Germany border, German border, it is a major port, seaport, the la ...

) is a

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and university professor in the fields of

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and

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Biography

Alicja Sakaguchi earned a master's degree after studying Hungarian and Esperantology at

Eötvös Loránd University Eötvös Loránd University (, ELTE, also known as ''University of Budapest'') is a Hungarian public research university based in Budapest. Founded in 1635, ELTE is one of the largest and most prestigious public higher education institutions in ...

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(1974 to 1979); she completed her doctorate in 1982. From 1981 to 1985 she was a lecturer at the University of Paderborn, then from 1986 to 1998 at the

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. She received her

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in 2000 after publishing a book on

. From 2001 to 2002 she was assistant professor of modern languages at Adam Mickiewicz University in

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; since 2003 she has been a professor there, teaching interlinguistics,

, German and intercultural communication. She is married to Takashi Sakaguchi, a

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ese man whom she met through the Esperanto movement, and has two adult children, Dai and Leo, who are native speakers of Esperanto. Both sons were born in

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Mia familio, meine Familie: Esperanto als Muttersprache
' ("My family: Esperanto as a mother tongue"), 29 April 2004. Retrieved 2009-07-26. in Germany, a town close to

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, where she was teaching at the time.

Selected works

* "Rasmus Kristian Rasks Konzeption einer Welthilfssprache" ("Rasmus Christian Rask's Concept of a Global Auxiliary Language") in ''Historiographia Linguistica'' (co-author with Heribert Rück, 1989) 16: 311–326. * Rasmus Christian Rask: ''Traktatu d'un Lingua universale (Abhandlung über eine allgemeine Sprache/Traktato pri generala lingvo).'' ("Treatise on general linguistics", Part II of the manuscript "Optegnelser til en Pasigraphie" ("Records for a Pasigraphy", 1823). Edited with commentary by Alicja Sakaguchi. Frankfurt: Lang, 1996. * ''Interlinguistik: Gegenstand, Ziele, Aufgaben, Methoden'' ("Interlinguistics: Purpose, objectives, tasks, methods") Frankfurt: Lang, 1998 (''Duisburger Arbeiten zur Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft'' 36). * "Einige Bemerkungen zur dreisprachigen Erziehung (Polnisch-Esperanto-Deutsch) meiner Kinder" ("Some comments on the trilingual education (Polish-Esperanto-German) of my children") in ''Phänomene im semantisch-syntaktischen Grenzbereich: Materialien der internationalen Linguistenkonferenz Karpacz 27.9.-29'', Leslaw Cirko and Martin Grimberg (eds.), September 2004. (Supplements to ''Orbis Linguarum'' 47). Dresden: Neisse Verlag, p. 133-145.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sakaguchi, Alicja 1954 births Living people Writers from Szczecin Linguists from Poland Polish women linguists Polish Esperantists Eötvös Loránd University alumni Paderborn University alumni Goethe University Frankfurt alumni Polish expatriates in Germany Polish expatriates in Hungary Polish women academics