LINGUIST List 21.4350
Sun Oct 31 2010
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1. Farzad Sharifian ,
Obituary: Professor Michael Clyne
Message 1: Obituary: Professor Michael Clyne
Date: 30-Oct-2010
From: Farzad Sharifian <farzad.sharifianmonash.edu>
Subject: Obituary: Professor Michael Clyne
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Dear all,
It is with greatest sadness that I announce the passing of ProfessorMichael Clyne, the most outstanding Australian sociolinguist, in the earlyhours of the morning of the 29th of October. Michael was an EmeritusProfessor at Monash, and an Honorary Professorial Fellow at the Universityof Melbourne. He was made a Member of the Order of Australia on June 13,1993 'for service to education, particularly in the field of linguistics.'In brief, Michael’s publications include 27 authored, co-authored andedited books and over 300 articles and book chapters. The books include'Language and Society in the German-speaking Countries' (CUP, 1984), andits sequel 'The German Language in a Changing Europe' (CUP, 1995),'Community Languages The Australian experience' (CUP 1991), 'PluricentricLanguages' (ed, Mouton de Gruyter, 1992), 'Inter-Cultural Communication atWork' (CUP, 1994), 'Undoing and Redoing Corpus Planning' (ed, Mouton deGruyter, 1997), 'Dynamics of Language Contact' (CUP 2003) and 'Australia'sLanguage Potential' (UNSW Press, 2005).
The night before his death Michael attended the third Annual Public Lectureof the Language and Society Centre (established in 1989 by Michael atMonash University), that he had invited me to present. During the talk Ihad the opportunity to pay tribute to Michael’s outstanding contributionsto the field. In retrospect, the public talk was Michael's farewell.
I cannot list Michael's contributions nor go into detail about hisachievements, awards and honours here. It is impossible to do justice tohis work in a few paragraphs. Instead I invite those who didn't knowMichael to visit his webpages at Monash University, the University ofMelbourne, a Wikipedia entry about him, and a tribute that his friends andcolleagues from around the world wrote for him upon his retirement in 2005.
Michael’s page at Monashhttp://arts.monash.edu.au/linguistics/staff/mclyne.phpMichael’s page at The University of Melbournehttp://www.linguistics.unimelb.edu.au/about/staff/profiles/clyne/Tribute from colleagues and friendshttp://www.rumaccc.unimelb.edu.au/clyne/tribute.pdfMichael’s Wikipediahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Clyne
Michael's death is a huge loss to the academic community in Australia andbeyond.Michael’s family would prefer that, instead of sending flowers, donationsbe made towards funding a scholarship in his memory. Information about thiswill be posted soon.
Farzad Sharifian,Director, Language and Society Centrehttp://www.arts.monash.edu.au/language-and-society/farzad.sharifianmonash.edu
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