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This article was downloaded by: [UQ Library] On: 13 November 2014, At: 13:05 Publisher: Routledge Informa Ltd Registered in England and Wales Registered Number: 1072954 Registered office: Mortimer House, 37-41 Mortimer Street, London W1T 3JH, UK Journal of Intercultural Studies Publication details, including instructions for authors and subscription information: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/cjis20 Obituary — Einar Haugen Michael Clyne Published online: 04 May 2010. To cite this article: Michael Clyne (1994) Obituary — Einar Haugen, Journal of Intercultural Studies, 15:1, 1-1 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07256868.1994.9963407 PLEASE SCROLL DOWN FOR ARTICLE Taylor & Francis makes every effort to ensure the accuracy of all the information (the “Content”) contained in the publications on our platform. However, Taylor & Francis, our agents, and our licensors make no representations or warranties whatsoever as to the accuracy, completeness, or suitability for any purpose of the Content. Any opinions and views expressed in this publication are the opinions and views of the authors, and are not the views of or endorsed by Taylor & Francis. The accuracy of the Content should not be relied upon and should be independently verified with primary sources of information. Taylor and Francis shall not be liable for any losses, actions, claims, proceedings, demands, costs, expenses, damages, and other liabilities whatsoever or howsoever caused arising directly or indirectly in connection with, in relation to or arising out of the use of the Content. This article may be used for research, teaching, and private study purposes. Any substantial or systematic reproduction, redistribution, reselling, loan, sub-licensing, systematic supply, or distribution in any form to anyone is expressly forbidden. Terms & Conditions of access and use can be found at http:// www.tandfonline.com/page/terms-and-conditions

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This article was downloaded by: [UQ Library]On: 13 November 2014, At: 13:05Publisher: RoutledgeInforma Ltd Registered in England and Wales Registered Number: 1072954 Registered office: Mortimer House,37-41 Mortimer Street, London W1T 3JH, UK

Journal of Intercultural StudiesPublication details, including instructions for authors and subscription information:http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/cjis20

Obituary — Einar HaugenMichael ClynePublished online: 04 May 2010.

To cite this article: Michael Clyne (1994) Obituary — Einar Haugen, Journal of Intercultural Studies, 15:1, 1-1

To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07256868.1994.9963407

PLEASE SCROLL DOWN FOR ARTICLE

Taylor & Francis makes every effort to ensure the accuracy of all the information (the “Content”) contained in thepublications on our platform. However, Taylor & Francis, our agents, and our licensors make no representationsor warranties whatsoever as to the accuracy, completeness, or suitability for any purpose of the Content. Anyopinions and views expressed in this publication are the opinions and views of the authors, and are not theviews of or endorsed by Taylor & Francis. The accuracy of the Content should not be relied upon and should beindependently verified with primary sources of information. Taylor and Francis shall not be liable for any losses,actions, claims, proceedings, demands, costs, expenses, damages, and other liabilities whatsoever or howsoevercaused arising directly or indirectly in connection with, in relation to or arising out of the use of the Content.

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• Obituary — Einar Haugen •

Einar Haugen, the great pioneer of language contact studies who died on June 20,had an academic career spanning 63 years. Born into a Norwegian family in Iowa,U.S. in April 1906, Einar Haugen lived bilingualism for the whole of his life. Oncompleting his doctoral dissertation on Ny Norsk at the University of Wisconsin in1931, he was appointed to the staff, gaining a full professorship in ScandinavianStudies in 1938 which he held until his appointment in 1964 to chair of Scandinavianand Linguistics at Harvard.

Haugen's Norwegian Language in America (1953) was the most substantial studyto date of a bilingual community. But it was his Bilingualism in the Americas (1956)which, together with Weinreich's Languages in Contact, laid the theoretical andmethodological foundations for language contact studies up to the present time andinspired contrastive analysis. Haugen's work represented the beginning of Americansociolinguistics. Through Language Conflict and Language Planning in Norway heinitiated the development of language planning studies.

In addition to his concern with the social context of language, Haugen was alsoa leading theoretical linguist of the structuralist school. His work on phonemics andprosody was influential. On the other hand, a dedicated cultural mediator, he wasthe author of several Norwegian textbooks, a Norwegian-English dictionary, andseveral translations from Norwegian and Icelandic.

Einar Haugen was President of the Linguistic Society of America (1950), theAmerican Dialect Society (1965), and the 9th International Congress of Linguistics(1962). He held visiting professorships and fellowships in numerous countries andwas in great demand as a keynote speaker. He held honorary doctorates from eightU.S. and Scandinavian universities, was a member of academies or similar organi-zations in six countries, and was decorated by several governments. After hisretirement in 1975, he continued to publish prolifically, sometimes finishing twobooks a year, many of them in the Scandinavian field.

He inspired generations all over the world. To cite but one case 'close to home',I may never have entered this field if, as a first year student, I had not accidentallydiscovered The Norwegian Language in America on a shelf in the University ofMelbourne library. I was so fascinated by it that I could not put it down and haverediscovered it many times since. Later, I enjoyed and benefited from a regularcorrespondence with Einar and met him at various conferences. It was a greatpleasure for us all when he and his wife Eva visited Australia in 1982, gave somefascinating talks at Monaish and the ANU, and a national workshop on languagecontact research held in the Centre for Migrant Studies at Monash was constructedaround him. He was the first witness of the Senate Inquiry on National LanguagePolicy. His influence as a scholar and a person will live on.

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