Cliff Goddard | |
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Alma mater | Australian National University |
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Main interests | semantics, pragmatics, natural semantic metalanguage, ethnopragmatics, language typology and cross-cultural linguistics |
Cliff Goddard FAHA (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]