LINGUIST List 21.4350 Sun Oct 31 2010 All: Obituary: Professor Michael Clyne Editor for this issue: Elyssa Winzeler <elyssalinguistlist.org> To post to LINGUIST, use our convenient web form at http://linguistlist.org/LL/posttolinguist.cfm Directory         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 E-mail this message to a friend Dear all, It is with greatest sadness that I announce the passing of Professor Michael Clyne, the most outstanding Australian sociolinguist, in the early hours of the morning of the 29th of October. Michael was an Emeritus Professor at Monash, and an Honorary Professorial Fellow at the University of 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 and edited books and over 300 articles and book chapters. The books include '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' (UNSW Press, 2005). The night before his death Michael attended the third Annual Public Lecture of the Language and Society Centre (established in 1989 by Michael at Monash University), that he had invited me to present. During the talk I had the opportunity to pay tribute to Michael’s outstanding contributions to the field. In retrospect, the public talk was Michael's farewell. I cannot list Michael's contributions nor go into detail about his achievements, awards and honours here. It is impossible to do justice to his work in a few paragraphs. Instead I invite those who didn't know Michael to visit his webpages at Monash University, the University of Melbourne, a Wikipedia entry about him, and a tribute that his friends and colleagues from around the world wrote for him upon his retirement in 2005. Michael’s page at Monash http://arts.monash.edu.au/linguistics/staff/mclyne.php Michael’s page at The University of Melbourne http://www.linguistics.unimelb.edu.au/about/staff/profiles/clyne/ Tribute from colleagues and friends http://www.rumaccc.unimelb.edu.au/clyne/tribute.pdf Michael’s Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Clyne Michael's death is a huge loss to the academic community in Australia and beyond. Michael’s family would prefer that, instead of sending flowers, donations be made towards funding a scholarship in his memory. Information about this will be posted soon. Farzad Sharifian, Director, Language and Society Centre http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/language-and-society/ farzad.sharifianmonash.edu Linguistic Field(s): Not Applicable Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 31-Oct-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.