Cliff Goddard

Cliff Goddard 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, and he is considered a leading scholar in the fields of semantics, and cross-cultural pragmatics.^[3]

Selected publications

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

Notes

1. "Professor Cliff Goddard". UNE Staff. University of New England. 2008-12-05. Retrieved 2010-09-14.
2. Schalley, Andrea C.; Zaefferer, Dietmar (2007). Ontolinguistics: how ontological status shapes the linguistic coding of concepts. Mouton de Gruyter. p. 460. ISBN 3-11-018997-6.
3. Senft, Gunter; Östman, Jan-Ola; Verschueren, Jef, eds. (2009). Culture and Language Use. John Benjamins. ISBN 90-272-0779-8.