Cliff Goddard (born 5 December 1953 in
Canberra
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) is a professor of
linguistics at
Griffith University,
Queensland,
Australia
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.
He is, with
Anna Wierzbicka
Anna Wierzbicka (born 10 March 1938 in Warsaw) is a Poles, Polish linguistics, linguist who is Emeritus Professor at the Australian National University, Canberra. Brought up in Poland, she graduated from Warsaw University and emigrated to Austr ...
, a leading proponent of the
Natural Semantic Metalanguage approach to
linguistic analysis.
Goddard's research has explored
cognitive
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and
cultural
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aspects of everyday language and language use, and he is considered a leading scholar in the fields of
semantics, and
cross-cultural pragmatics.
[
] His work spans
English, (especially
Australian English
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),
indigenous Australian languages (
Yankunytjatjara,
Pitjantjatjara), and South East Asian languages (especially
Malay
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Languages
* Malay language or Bahasa Melayu, a major Austronesian language spoken in Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei and Singapore
** History of the Malay language, the Malay language from the 4th to the 14th century
** Indonesi ...
).
Selected publications
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External links
Staff Page Griffith University
Researcher Page NSM HomepageNSM Homepage
Living people
Academic staff of Griffith University
Linguists from Australia
Semanticists
Australian cognitive scientists
1953 births
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