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PROF MICHAEL GEORGE CLYNE



Contact Details

Organization: Languages and Linguistics
Position: Honorary (Professorial Fellow)
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Homepage: http://www.linguistics.unimelb.edu.au/about//staff/profiles/clyne/
Work: 8344 8991
Level: 02
Building: 245 Cardigan Street
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Country of Expertise
Bi-/Multilingualism / language contact Australia, Germany
Sociolinguistics (esp. in European and Australian contexts) Australia, Germany
Inter-cultural communication Australia, Germany
second language acquisition Australia, Germany

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
Netherlands University of Groningen Research
Germany Free University of Berlin Research
Germany University of Bonn Research
Belgium Katholieke Universiteit Brussel Research
Netherlands Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Research
Germany Institute for the German Language Research

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Master of Arts University of Melbourne
Doctor of Philosophy Monash University
Doctor of Philosophy Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Member Applied Linguistics Association of Australia 01-Jan-1988
Member Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences 01-Jan-2005
Member Australian Linguistic Society 01-Jan-2005

Honours

Honour Date Awarded
Member of the Order of Australia 1993

Fellowships

Fellowship Date Awarded
Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (FASSA) 01-Jan-1982
Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (FAHA) 01-Jan-1983

Other Awards

Award Type Awarding Body Comments Date Awarded
Prize Humboldt Research Prize 01-Jan-2003
Medal Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and the Arts, 1st class 01-Jan-1996
Prize Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Prize (International prize for German Studies) 01-Jan-1999
Medal Centenary of Federation Medal 01-Jan-2003
Medal German Cross of Merit, 1st class 01-Jan-2003

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Community languages in early 21st Century Australia Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2002
Address in some western European languages: a study of language & social change Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2003

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2008

Book Chapters

  • Why Germany needs a co-ordinated, pluralistic language policy


    Year: 2008
    Book: Multilingual Europe: Reflections on language and identity
    Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Press(Newcastle)
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Journal Articles

  • A tale of two multilingual cities in a multicultural continent


    Year: 2008
    Journal: People and Place
    Volume: 16
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 1-8
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Publications in 2007

Book Chapters

  • From bilingual to linguist
    Year: 2007
    Book: Translating Lives: Living with Two Languages and Cultures
    Publisher: University of Queensland Press(St Lucia)
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  • Sociolinguistic continuity from old to new homeland: factors in language maintenance and shift seen from the Australian situation
    Year: 2007
    Book: Plurilingua: Contact Linguistics and Language Minorities
    Publisher: Asgard Verlag(St Augustine)
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  • Words excusing exclusion of asylum seekers
    Year: 2007
    Book: Yearning to Breathe Free: Seeking Asylum in Australia
    Publisher: The Federation Press(Sydney)
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Journal Articles

  • Tamil in Melbourne
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Journal of Multilingual & Multicultural Development
    Volume: 28
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 169-187
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • A cross-linguistic comparison of address pronoun use in four European languages: Intralingual and interlingual dimensions


    Year: 2007
    Event name: 2006 Annual Meeting of the Australian Linguistic Society
    Conference Publication: Selected papers from the 2006 Annual Meeting of the Australian Linguistic Society
    Page numbers: 1-12
    Publisher: The University of Queensland(Brisbane)
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Publications in 2006

Books

  • Tiles In A Multilingual Mosaic. Macedonian, Filipino, and Somali in Melbourne
    Year: 2006
    Publisher: Pacific Linguistics Publishers(Canberra)
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Book Chapters

  • The Dutch Language in Australia: Some comparisons with other community languages


    Year: 2006
    Book: The Dutch Down Under 1606-2006
    Publisher: University of Western Australia Press(Crawley)
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  • Empowerment through the community language- A challenge
    Year: 2006
    Book: Contributions to the Socilogy of Language
    Publisher: Walter de Gruyter(Berlin)
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  • Some exploratory comments relating sociolinguistic typology to language shift
    Year: 2006
    Book: Studies In Contact Linguistics
    Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing(New York)
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Journal Articles

  • Australia's Community Languages
    Year: 2006
    Journal: International Journal of the Sociology of Language
    Volume: 180
    Page numbers: 7-21
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  • Perceptions of variation and change in German and Swedish address
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of Sociolinguistics
    Volume: 10
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 287-319
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  • Pronominal Address in German. Rules, Anarchy and Embarassment Potential
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Australian Review of Applied Linguistics
    Volume: 29
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 17.1-17.18
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  • Some thoughts on pragmatics, sociolinguistic variation, and intercultural communication
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Intercultural Pragmatics
    Volume: 3
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 95-105
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • The Social Responsibility and Impact of the linguist/applied linguist in Australia
    Year: 2006
    Event name: australian Linguistics Society Conference
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 2005 Australian Linguistics Society Conference
    Page numbers: 1-11
    Publisher: Australian Linguistics Society(Sydney)
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Publications in 2005

Books

  • Australia's Language Potential
    Year: 2005
    Publisher: University of New South Wales Press(Sydney)
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Book Chapters

  • Expressing Filipino identity in Australia
    Year: 2005
    Book: Sprachenlernen als Investition in die Zukunft. Wirkungshreise eines Sprachlernzentrums. Festschrift fur Heinrich P. Kelz
    Publisher: Gunter Narr Verlag(Tubingen)
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  • Sharing community languages: Utopian dream or realistic vision
    Year: 2005
    Book: Directions in Applied Linguistics
    Publisher: Multilingual Matters(Clevedon)
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  • Ta eliniko stin Avstralia / Greek in Australia
    Year: 2005
    Book: Topics of identity in the Greek diaspora: Language and literature
    Publisher: Metaichmio Editions(Athens)
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Journal Articles

  • On the Somali language
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Migration Action
    Volume: XXVII
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 19-22
    Publisher: Ecumenical Migration Centre(Melbourne)
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  • Period of residence as a factor in language maintenance: Hungarian-English bilinguals in Australia as a case study
    Year: 2005
    Journal: ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics
    Volume: 150
    Page numbers: 1-18
    Publisher: Peeters-Leuven(Brussels)
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  • Sprachdemographie und Sprachpolitik in Australien: das wechselhafte Schicksal von Einwanderersprachen
    Year: 2005
    Journal: IMIS Beitrage
    Volume: 26
    Page numbers: 11-28
    Publisher: Institut fuer Migrationsforschung und Interkulturelle Studien
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  • The use of exclusionary language to manipulate opinion: John Howard, asylum seekers and the reemergence of political incorrectness in Australia
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Journal of Language and Politics
    Volume: 4
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 173-196
    Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
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Publications in 2004

Book Chapters

  • Is the German language dying out in Australia?
    Year: 2004
    Book: Worlds of Reading
    Publisher: Lang - Peter Lang(Frankfurt)
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  • Towards an Agenda for Developing Multilingual Communication with a Community Base
    Year: 2004
    Book: Multilingual Communication
    Publisher: Benjamins - John Benjamins Publishing Company(Amsterdam)
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Journal Articles

  • Community Language Media and Australia's Changing Language Demography
    Year: 2004
    Journal: People and Place
    Volume: 12
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 24 - 34
    Publisher: Centre for Population and Urban Research, Monash University(Melbourne)
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  • Developing and Sharing Community Language Resources Through Secondary School Programmes
    Year: 2004
    Journal: International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism
    Volume: 7
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 255 - 278
    Publisher: Multilingual Matters
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  • Languages Taken at School and Languages Spoken in the Community - A Comparative Perspective
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Australian Review of Applied Linguistics
    Volume: 27
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 1 - 17
    Publisher: Applied Linguistics Association of Australia(Melbourne)
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  • Learning a Community Language as a Third Language
    Year: 2004
    Journal: International Journal of Multilingualism
    Volume: 1
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 33 - 52
    Publisher: Multilingual Matters
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  • Matching Policy Implementation with Demography
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Language Policy
    Volume: 3
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 241 - 270
    Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers(Dordrecht)
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  • Sometimes it's the biggest step you could be taking: On German address in international comparison
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Sprachreport
    Volume: 20
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 2-8
    Publisher: Institut fuer Deutsche Sprache
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  • Trapped in a Monolingual Mindset
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Principal Matters
    Volume: 59
    Page numbers: 18 - 20
    Publisher: VASSP(Melbourne)
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Major Reference Works

  • Sociolinguistics:History of Research on Language Contact
    Year: 2004