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<jats:p>Michael Clyne (1939–2010) was an Australian sociolinguist and sociologist of language who worked in the areas of language contact, code switching, bilingualism and multi‐lingualism, immigrant language maintenance and shift, language education, language policy, and the sociolinguistics of the German speech area. He was a passionate advocate of multilingualism</jats:p>