Professor Michael Clyne
Emeritus Professor
Contact details
Phone: +61 99020781
Email: Michael.Clyne@arts.monash.edu.au
Office: Room W417, Menzies Bldg (11)
Qualifications
MA (Melb), PhD (Monash)
Research fields and areas of supervision
Bi-/Multilingualism / language contact
Sociolinguistics (esp. in European and Australian contexts)
Cross-cultural communication
Language policy.
Academic and civil honours
Dr Phil.h.c (München), FASSA, FAHA,
Foreign Member, Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences,
AM,
Austrian Cross of Honour,
German Cross of Merit,
Centenary of Federation Medal,
Inaugural Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Supervision
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Prize (international prize for German Studies), 1999
Alexander von Humboldt Research Prize, 2003
Hon. Life member: Applied Linguistics Association of Australia, Australian Linguistic Society, Modern Language Teachers Association of Victoria; Patron, Victorian School of Languages
Biography
I studied Germanic Languages (German, Dutch, plus Icelandic and some Norwegian) and French at the University of Melbourne (BA Hons 1960, MA 1962). Then followed a period as a graduate student in General and Germanic Linguistics in Utrecht and Bonn prior to joining the German staff of Monash (Sept. 1962), several months before the first wing of the Menzies Building was completed. I was Associate Professor of German from 1972 until August 1988, when I took up the Professorship of Linguistics. I was foundation director of the interdisciplinary Centre for Migrant (and Intercultural Studies) and of the Language and Society Centre. At the start of 2001, I took up a Professorial Fellowship in Linguistics at the University of Melbourne and established the Research Unit for Multilingualism and Cross-Cultural Communication there. Following my retirement four years later, I have been both an honorary professorial fellow at Melbourne and an emeritus professor at Monash.
My PhD thesis (Monash, 1965) was on immigrant bilingualism/ language contact, which has remained one of my 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 I have supervised a large number of theses and also the fields of most of my publications – 28 authored, co-authored and edited books (plus one in press) and over 300 articles and book chapters.
I am passionate about languages and giving everyone the opportunity to become multilingual and to fully understand the way in which language is used for good and evil purposes. I have been involved in developing pluralistic language policies, and second language programs in schools, especially primary schools, and have sat on many relevant committees (Currently a member of the Victorian Ministerial Advisory Committee on Languages, ESL and Multicultural Education). I am on the editorial board of 13 international journals and have been a visiting professor at the Universities of Hamburg, Heidelberg, Stuttgart, and Verona.
Selected Publications
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.
1999 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. pp. xi + 150.