Professor Michael Clyne
Honorary Professorial Fellow
Contact details
Phone: +61 3 8344 8991
Email: mgclyne@ unimelb.edu.au
Office: room 209, Babel Building
Web: http://www.rumaccc.unimelb.edu.au
Qualifications
MA (Melb), PhD (Monash)
Academic and civil honours
Dr Phil.h.c (Munchen), FASSA, FAHA,
Foreign Member, Royal Netherlands Academy of Science
AM, Austrian Cross of Honour,
German Cross of Merit,
Centenary of Federation Medel
Research fields and areas of supervision
Bi-/Multilingualism / language contact
Sociolinguistics (esp. in European and Australian contexts)
Cross-cultural communication
Language policy.
Biography
When Michael Clyne left Monash, the University where he had worked for over 38 years to take up a Professorial Fellowship in Linguistics at Melbourne in 2001, he was returning to the place where his studies had begun. Clyne studied Germanic Languages (German, Dutch, plus Icelandic and some Norwegian) and French at the University of Melbourne (BA Hons 1960, MA 1962). He was a graduate student in General and Germanic Linguistics in Utrecht and Bonn before joining the German staff of Monash (Sept. 1962). From 1988 until his transfer, he had been Professor of Linguistics at Monash.
His PhD thesis (Monash, 1965) was on immigrant bilingualism/ language contact, which has remained one of his main research areas. Other research areas include European and Australian sociolinguistics, cross-cultural communication, language policy, and second language acquisition. These are the areas in which he has supervised a large number of theses and also the fields of most of his publications – 27 authored, co-authored and edited books and over 300 articles and book chapters. The books include Transference and Triggering (Nijhoff, 1967), Language and Society in the German-speaking Countries (CUP, 1984), and its sequel The German Language in a Changing Europe (CUP, 1995), Community Languages The Australian experience (CUP 1991), Pluricentric Languages (ed, Mouton de Gruyter, 1992), Inter-Cultural Communication at Work (CUP, 1994), Undoing and Redoing Corpus Planning (ed, Mouton de Gruyter, 1997) Dynamics of Language Contact (CUP 2003) and Australia's Language Potential. He has had a strong involvement in advocacy of bilingualism, pluralistic language policies, and second language programs in schools, especially primary schools, and sat on many relevant committees.
Michael is on the editorial board of 13 international journals. He has been visiting professor of Linguistics at the Universities of Heidelberg and Stuttgart. Awards include Member of the Order of Australia, Austrian Cross of Honour of Science and the Arts, the German Cross of Merit, a Centenary of Federation medal, an honorary doctorate of the University of Munich, the inaugural Vice Chancellor’s Award for Postgraduate Supervision (Monash), the 1999 Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm Prize (international German Studies prize) and a Humboldt Research Prize. He is a fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences of Australia and the Australian Academy of the Humanities, and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences.
Since his retirement in January 2005, he has been Professorial Fellow in the School of Languages (attached to RUMACCC) and also Emeritus Professor at Monash University. He is patron of the Victorian School of Languages.
Selected Publications
Books
1965 R. Taeni and M.G. Clyne, Efficient German. Macmillan, Melbourne and London. pp. xv + 260. (2nd edition, 1970. pp. xv + 271: 3rd edition, 1981. pp. v + 299.)
1967 Transference and Triggering. Nijhoff, The Hague. pp. xix + 148.
1972 Perspectives on Language Contact. Hawthorn Press, Melbourne. pp. 138.
1975 Forschungsbericht Sprachkontakt. Scriptor, Kronberg. pp. vi + 266.
1976 (ed.) Australia Talks: Essays on Australian Immigrant and Aboriginal Languages. Series D, No. 23. Pacific Linguistics, ANU, Canberra. pp. 244. 1981 Deutsch als Muttersprache in Australien. Franz Steiner Verlag, Wiesbaden. pp. 122.
1981 (ed.) Foreigner Talk. (= International Journal of the Sociology of Language 28) Mouton, The Hague. pp. 115.
1982 Multilingual Australia. River Seine, Melbourne. pp. x + 178. (2nd Edition, 1985. pp. x + 184.)
1983 S. Manton, J. McKay and M. Clyne, English Language Learning Needs of Adult Migrants in the Western Suburbs of Melbourne. (= Studies in Adult Migrant Education 1.) Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra. pp. x + 144.
1984 Language and Society in the German-speaking Countries. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and New York. pp. xiii + 205.
1985 (ed.) Australia, Meeting Place of Languages. (= Series C, No. 92). Pacific Linguistics, ANU Canberra. pp. v + 328.
1986a (ed.) An Early Start: Second Language at the Primary School. River Seine, Melbourne. pp. 160.
1986b (ed.) J.A. Fishman, A. Tabouret-Keller, M. Clyne, B. Krishnamurti and M. Abdulaziz, The Fergusonian Impact. Vol. I, From Phonology to Society. pp. xv + 545. Vol. II, Sociolinguistics and the Sociology of Language. pp. xv + 598. Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin.
1991a Community Languages: The Australian Experience. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. pp. viii + 294.
1991b (ed.) Linguistics in Australia: Trends in Research. Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, Canberra. pp. vi + 210.
1992 (ed.) Pluricentric Languages: Differing Norms in Different Nations. Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin. pp. vi + 481.
1993a H. Nicholas, H. Moore, M. Clyne, and A. Pauwels, Languages at the Crossroads. NLLIA, Melbourne. pp. xvi + 280.
1993b S. Fernandez, A. Pauwels, and M. Clyne, Unlocking Australia's Potential. Vol. 4: German. DEET/NLLIA, Canberra. pp. xi + 132.
1994 Inter-Cultural Communication at Work: Discourse Structures across Cultures. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. pp. x + 250. Paperback 1996.
1995a M. Clyne, C. Jenkins, I. Chen, R. Tsokalidou and T. Wallner, Developing Second Language From Primary School. NLLIA., Canberra, pp 232.
1995b S. Kipp, M. Clyne and A. Pauwels, Immigration and Australia's Language Resources. AGPS, Canberra. pp. xvi + 168.
1995c The German Language in a Changing Europe. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. pp. xv + 269.
1997a (ed.) Undoing and redoing corpus planning. Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin. pp. viii + 516.
1997b M. Clyne, S. Fernandez, I.Y. Chen and R. Summo-O'Connell, Background Speakers. Language Australia, Canberra.. pp. iii + 177.
M.Clyne and S. Kipp, Pluricentric Languages in an Immigrant Context: Spanish, Chinese, Arabic. Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin. pp. xxi + 360.
2003 Dynamics of Language Contact. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. Pp. xv +282.
2005 Australia's Language Potential. University of New South Wales Press, Sydney.pp. xii + 208.
2006 M. Clyne and S. Kipp, Tiles in a Multilingual Mosaic: Macedonian, Somali and Filipino in Melbourne. Pacific Linguistics, Canberra.