1. Michael Clyne was a scholar in various fields of linguistics, including sociolinguistics, pragmatics, bilingualism and multilingualism, second language learning, contact linguistics and intercultural communication.
12 Facts About Michael Clyne
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Michael Clyne was the only child of the Jewish Austrian couple Johannes Jacob and Edith Cecily Clyne who had left their home country after the Anschluss.
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Michael Clyne studied for his Bachelor and Master of Arts degrees at the University of Melbourne, focusing on Germanic and French languages.
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Michael Clyne undertook further graduate studies in German and general linguistics at Utrecht and Bonn Universities, before joining the German language faculty at Monash University in Melbourne in 1962.
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Michael Clyne earned a PhD from Monash in 1965, and was a Professor of Linguistics at the University from 1988 to 2001.
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Michael Clyne was on the editorial board of at least 13 international journals.
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Michael Clyne was a Visiting Professor of Linguistics at the Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg and the University of Stuttgart.
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Michael Clyne spoke fluent English, German and Dutch, and had studied French, Italian, Swedish and Norwegian.
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Michael Clyne was elected a fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 1982 and the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 1983.
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Michael Clyne was elected a foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2005.
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Michael Clyne died on 29 October 2010 in his home of heart failure, aged 71.
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Michael Clyne published numerous books and articles of research in areas of linguistics, particularly in the field of bilingualism.