Cliff Goddard Explained

Cliff Goddard
Birth Date:	12 May 1953
Birth Place:	Canberra, Australia
Main Interests:	semantics, pragmatics, natural semantic metalanguage, ethnopragmatics, language typology and cross-cultural linguistics
Alma Mater:	Australian National University

Cliff Goddard (born 5 December 1953 in Canberra) is a professor of linguistics at Griffith University, Queensland, Australia.^[1] He is, with Anna Wierzbicka, a leading proponent of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage approach to linguistic analysis.^[2] Goddard's research has explored cognitive and cultural aspects of everyday language and language use. He is considered a leading scholar in the fields of semantics and cross-cultural pragmatics.^[3] His work spans English (especially Australian English), indigenous Australian languages (Yankunytjatjara, Pitjantjatjara), and South East Asian languages (especially Malay). He was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2003.^[4]

Selected publications

• • Book: Goddard . Cliff . Cross-Linguistic Semantics . . 2008 . Amsterdam . 978-90-272-0569-8 .
• Book: Goddard . Cliff . Ethnopragmatics: Understanding Discourse in Cultural Context . . 2006 . Berlin . 3-11-018874-0 .
• Book: Goddard , Cliff . The Languages of East and Southeast Asia: An Introduction . . 2005 . Oxford . 0-19-927311-1 .
• Book: Goddard . Cliff . Wierzbicka . Anna . Meaning and Universal Grammar – Theory and Empirical Findings . . 2002 . Amsterdam/Philadelphia . 90-272-3064-1 .
• Book: Goddard , Cliff . Semantic Analysis – A Practical Introduction . . 1998 . Oxford . 0-19-870016-4 .
• Book: Goddard . Cliff . Wierzbicka . Anna . Semantic and Lexical Universals – Theory and Empirical Findings . . 1994 . Amsterdam . 90-272-3028-5 .

External links

• Staff Page Griffith University
• Researcher Page NSM Homepage
• NSM Homepage

Notes and References

1. Web site: Professor Cliff Goddard . UNE Staff . . 2008-12-05 . 2010-09-14 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110213222820/http://www.une.edu.au/staff/cgoddard.php . 13 February 2011 . dead .
2. Book: Schalley . Andrea C. . Zaefferer . Dietmar . Ontolinguistics: how ontological status shapes the linguistic coding of concepts . . 2007 . 460 . 978-3-11-018997-1 .
3. Book: Senft . Gunter . Östman . Jan-Ola . Verschueren . Jef . Culture and Language Use . . 2009 . 978-90-272-0779-1 .
4. Web site: Fellow Profile . 2024-05-28 . Australian Academy of the Humanities . en-AU.