Michael Clyne

Biographic Data

ID733516
NAMEMichael Clyne
GIVEN NAMESMichael
FAMILY NAMEClyne
SIGNATURECLYNE M
AFFILIATIONSMonash University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS84
TOTAL CITATIONS233
AUTHOR COUNT81
EDITOR COUNT3
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1968
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
H-INDEX8

  • Multilingualism

    Michael ClyneOTHERThe Handbook of Sociolinguistics2017

    The term “multilingualism” can refer to either the language use or the competence of an individual or to the language situation in an entire nation or society. However, at the individual level it is generally subsumed under “bilingualism.” This may be because, while there are probably more bilinguals in the world than monolinguals, there are not perceived to be so many people who use more than two languages habitually. There are, of course, many …

  • Undoing and Redoing Corpus Planning

    Michael ClyneBOOKUndoing and Redoing Corpus Planning2016

  • Connecting younger second-language learners and older bilinguals

    Michael Clyne, Marisa Cordella et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2013Cited by: 3References: 2

    This article reports on an inter-generational inter-cultural pilot project carried out in suburban Melbourne which supports the second-language acquisition of younger people and enhances the social inclusion of older people of migrant background. The article begins with an outline of the multilingual context in which the project is based. The project is then described, and qualitative data indicating its success are presented. This is collected f…

  • Pluricentric Languages

    Michael ClyneBOOKPluricentric Languages2012

  • The Janus face of monolingualism

    Elizabeth Ellis, Ingrid Gogolin et al.ARTICLECurrent Issues in Language Planning2010Cited by: 20References: 8

    Germany and Australia are examples of countries characterised by a tension between their plurilingual populations and their monolingual mindsets. This paper sets out to make a comparison between policy and practice in language and education in Germany and Australia, first outlining the link between the nineteenth-century development of the ideology of the nation-state and beliefs in the importance of a single language as a key feature of a strong…

  • Language and Human Relations

    Open AccessMichael Clyne, Catrin Norrby et al.BOOKLanguage and Human Relations2009

    The way in which people address one another is crucial to expressing social relationships and is closely linked with cultural values. In English we call some people by their first names, and others 'Mr' or 'Ms', followed by their surname. In some other languages there are different ways of saying 'you' depending on the degree of social distance. Exploring practices in the family, school, university, the workplace and in letters, this book reveals…

  • Address in intercultural communication across languages

    Michael ClyneARTICLEIntercultural Pragmatics2009Cited by: 3References: 1

    Through migration, travel, globalization, and new technologies, languages and their address systems are increasingly in contact. Modes of address are both fundamental to expressing human relations and closely linked to cultural value systems. In European languages these modes may include a pronoun, first name [FN], honorific and/or title + last name [LN] (Herr or Herr Professor Kecskés), or other formal mode (sir/madam) or informal mode (mate, de…

  • The monolingual mindset as an impediment to the development of plurilingual potential in Australia

    Michael ClyneARTICLESociolinguistic Studies2008Cited by: 17

    This article shows how the monolingual mindset of many decision makers in fields such as education detracts from Australia’s capacity to develop its potential in plurilingualism. It contrasts the projection of monolingualism as the desired norm with the linguistic diversity within the Australian community. A number of fallacious clichés are discussed critically and attributed to the monolingual mindset – the overcrowded curriculum, competing lite…

  • Tamil in Melbourne

    Sue Fernandez, Michael ClyneARTICLEJournal of Multilingual and…2007Cited by: 8References: 12

    There have been few Australian studies of language maintenance amongst immigrant languages from the Indian subcontinent. The present study focuses on Tamil speakers in Melbourne from Sri Lanka or India, who are Hindus or Christians. Tamil is a pluricentric language that has been under the domination of English in these countries, at least amongst the more educated classes. The study explores the complex interplay of factors including country of o…

  • Pronominal address in German

    Open AccessHeinz L Kretzenbacher, Michael Clyne et al.ARTICLEAustralian Review of Applied…2006

    Choice of address forms, a socially crucial feature in German communication, is context-dependent on situations (a) where the unmarked form of address is du (T), (b) where it is Sie (V), and (c) where the two systems (a and b) coexist. The first two situations are, apart from their fuzzy edges, rather clearcut. The third situation, however, appears anarchic and has a high embarrassment potential. In an empirical study based on 72 interviews condu…

  • Some thoughts on pragmatics, sociolinguistic variation, and intercultural communication

    Michael ClyneARTICLEIntercultural Pragmatics2006Cited by: 2References: 1

    Readers of this journal have recently witnessed a discussion between Kanavillil Rajagopalan and Deirdre Wilson and Dan Sperber on the role of the social aspects in pragmatics. I would like to touch on this issue from another point of view, focusing on intercultural (contrastive, crosscultural, and interlanguage) pragmatics. Over the past twenty years this field has made substantial contributions to the extension of linguistic models and the under…

  • Perceptions of variation and change in German and Swedish address 1

    Open AccessMichael Clyne, Heinz L Kretzenbacher et al.ARTICLEJournal of Sociolinguistics2006Cited by: 7References: 24

    German and Swedish speakers diverge in contemporary address practice. The Swedish T form has become unmarked, with V limited to very specific situations. Apart from some specific T or V contexts, German now has coexistent systems, one with T, the other with V as the unmarked form, with different speakers or networks preferring one or the other. In an ongoing project, focus groups and participant observation in Austria, (eastern and western) Germa…

  • Australia's community languages

    Michael Clyne, Sandra KippARTICLEInternational Journal of the…2006Cited by: 5References: 2

    This article focuses on Australia's changing language demography. After providing a short summary of immigration history and language policy in Australia, it considers the national distribution of languages at the time of the 2001 National Census, as well as the differential shift to English in various ethnolinguistic communities. The discussion is based on the analysis of census statistics and provides a context for the languages of the articles…

  • Period of residence as a factor in language maintenance

    Michael Clyne, Sue FernandezARTICLEITL - International Journal of…2005

    This paper explores ‘period of residence’ as a factor in the maintenance of an immigrant language, based on the example of Hungarian in Australia. Hungarian speakers arrived in Australia from several different source countries including Hungary, Romania (Transylvania), and areas of the formers Yugoslavia (Vojvodina) and Czechoslovakia (Slovakia). The distinct waves of Hungarian speaking migrants to Australia - 1938-40; 1947-54; 1956-57; 1960s, 70…

  • The use of exclusionary language to manipulate opinion

    Michael ClyneARTICLEJournal of Language and Politics2005Cited by: 26References: 8

    This article explores the role of language used by the Australian prime minister and other politicians in swaying Australian public opinion against ‘boat people’, focusing especially on particular lexical items. The article contextualizes the representation and treatment of asylum seekers and the language used to do this, both generally in the contemporary period and in the history of Australia as a British outpost in the Pacific. It relates this…

  • Developing and Sharing Community Language Resources Through Secondary School Programmes

    Michael Clyne, Tina Isaakidis et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2004

    This paper reports on research in progress in Melbourne secondary schools in which a community language is taught to students from a range of backgrounds. The programmes are described and contextualised. The project is developing models and strategies to enable schools to cater for the needs of secondary schools of students with and without home backgrounds in the target language and from different degrees of background in a community language wh…

  • Matching Policy Implementation With Demography

    Open AccessMichael Clyne, Felicity Grey et al.ARTICLELanguage Policy2004Cited by: 1References: 3

  • Learning a Community Language as a Third Language

    Michael Clyne, Claudia Rossi Hunt et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2004Cited by: 5

    This study is part of a larger action research project on the role of secondary school language programmes in the maintenance and spread of community languages in Melbourne. The study focuses on bilinguals learning another community language (Greek or Spanish) as a third language, some of them having a home language with a connection to the target language and some with completely unrelated home languages. Qualitative and qualitative data show th…

  • Dynamics of Language Contact

    Open AccessMichael ClyneBOOKDynamics of Language Contact2003

    The past decade has seen an unprecedented growth in the study of language contact, associated partly with the linguistic effects of globalization and increased migration all over the world. Written by a leading expert in the field, this much-needed account brings together disparate findings to examine the dynamics of contact between languages in an immigrant context. Using data from a wide range of languages, including German, Dutch, Hungarian, I…

  • Communicative Styles in a Contact Situation

    Michael Clyne, Sue Fernandez et al.ARTICLEJournal of Germanic Linguistics2003

    This paper reports on a small-scale exploratory study of metapragmatic perceptions of apologies, directives, and modal particles in two national varieties of a pluricentric language in contact. It investigates the way in which Austrians and Germans (believe they) communicate in German when they are married to each other and living in an environment where the national language is not German, that is, where they do not need to converge toward the n…

  • Lingua Franca and Ethnolects in Europe and Beyond

    Michael ClyneARTICLESociolinguistica - International…2000

  • Trilingualism, immigration and relatedness of languages

    Michael Clyne, Paola CassiaARTICLEITL - International Journal of…1999

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  • Undoing and Redoing Corpus Planning

    Anna Fenyvesi, Michael ClyneARTICLELanguage1999

  • English in Intercultural Interaction

    Boyd H Davis, Boyd Davis et al.ARTICLEAmerican Speech1998

  • The impact of the Peace Process in the Middle East on Arabic

    Hassan Abd-El-Jawad, Hassan R S Abd-El-Jawad et al.CHAPTERUndoing and Redoing Corpus Planning1997