In 2000, around twenty years ago, I was a young faculty member who had just been appointed to his position. I visited Toronto for a conference and attended a talk by a keynote speaker. The talk was fascinating. It was the first time that human language had been presented to me in such a lively, culturally sensitive and engaging form. I talked with the speaker, Prof. Marcel Danesi, and even met him at his office in Victoria College. I have been in touch with Marcel ever since, and he is one of the most supportive, energetic and enthusiastic academics I have ever met. I have seen him supporting young students and researchers, playing the piano with his band to raise money for The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, and initiating fascinating academic projects that always challenge disciplinary boundaries. Yiddish, the language of Eastern European Jews, uses the word mensch to describe someone who is not just a human being by his biological nature but a person of integrity and honor, a human being in the ultimate positive and non-biological sense of the term. This book is dedicated to Marcel Danesi, a mensch.
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Yair Neuman
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