Publications of Cliff Goddard
Books
Goddard, C. 2005. The Languages of East and Southeast Asia: An Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Goddard, C. 1998. Semantic Analysis – A Practical Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Goddard, C. 1996. Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjatjara to English Dictionary [Revised 2nd edition]. Alice Springs: IAD Press.
Goddard, C. 1993. A Learner's Guide to Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjatjara. Alice Springs: Institute for Aboriginal Development.
Goddard, C. 1992. Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjatjara to English Dictionary [2nd edition]. Alice Springs: Institute for Aboriginal Development.
Goddard, C. 1987. A Basic Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjatjara to English Dictionary. Alice Springs: Institute for Aboriginal Development.
Goddard, C. 1986. Yankunytjatjara Grammar. Alice Springs: Institute for Aboriginal Development.
Edited Books
Goddard, C. (ed.). 2008. Cross-Linguistic Semantics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Goddard, C. (ed.). 2006. Ethnopragmatics: Understanding Discourse in Cultural Context. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Goddard, C. (ed. with Anna Wierzbicka). 2004. Cultural Scripts. Special Issue of Intercultural Pragmatics. 1(2).
Goddard, C. (ed. with Gary Palmer and Penny Lee). 2003. Talking about "Thinking". Special Issue of Cognitive Linguistics, 14(2/3).
Goddard, C. (ed. with Anna Wierzbicka). 2002. Meaning and Universal Grammar – Theory and Empirical Findings. Two Volumes. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Goddard, C. 1997. (General ed.; consultant eds Elizabeth Ellis and Leanne Cook) Pocket Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjatjara to English Dictionary. Alice Springs: Institute for Aboriginal Development.
Goddard, C. 1997. Studies in the Syntax of Universal Semantic Primitives. Special Issue of Language Sciences, 19(3).
Goddard, C. (ed. with Anna Wierzbicka) 1994. Semantic and Lexical Universals – Theory and Empirical Findings. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Goddard, C. 1992. (ed. with Nicholas Evans) Special edition on 'Aboriginal linguistics'. Australian Journal of Linguistics 12(1).
Goddard, C. 1988. (ed., with A. Kalotas) Punu: Yankunytjatjara Plant Use. Sydney: Angus and Robertson.
Book Chapters and Journal Articles
Goddard, Cliff and Wierzbicka, Anna. Forthcoming. The semantics of "abstract nouns": Modern NSM semantic analyses compared with the thinking of John Locke and Jeremy Bentham.
Goddard, Cliff and Wierzbicka, Anna. Forthcoming. Men, women and children: The conceptual semantics of basic social categories.
Goddard, Cliff. Forthcoming. Have to, have got to, and must: NSM analyses of English modal verbs of "necessity".
Goddard, Cliff. Forthcoming. "Follow the way of the rice plant": The semantics of proverbs in English and Malay (Bahasa Melayu).
Goddard, Cliff (with Jock Wong and Anna Wierzbicka). Forthcoming. Walking, running, jumping: The semantics of human locomotion.
Goddard, Cliff. In press. Semantic primes, semantic molecules, semantic templates: Key concepts in the NSM approach to lexical typology. Linguistics (Special issue on "Lexical Typology", edited by Maria Koptjevskaya-Tamm).
Goddard, Cliff and Wierzbicka, Anna. In press, 2010. Semantics and cognition. In: Lynn Nadel (ed.), Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science (WIREs Cognitive Science).
Goddard, Cliff and Wierzbicka, Anna. In press, 2010. 'Wanting' is a semantic and conceptual universal (response to Khanina). Studies in Language.
Goddard, Cliff. In press, 2010. Semantic primitives (primes). In: Patrick Colm Hogan (ed.), The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language Sciences (CELS): http://www.cels.uconn.edu.
Goddard, Cliff and Schalley, Andrea C. In press, 2010. Semantic analysis. In: Nitin Indurkhya and Fred J. Damerau (eds.), Handbook of Natural Language Processing, London/New York: CRC Press, Taylor and Francis.
Goddard, Cliff. In press, 2010. Universals and variation in the lexicon of mental states. In Barbara Malt and Phil Wolff (eds), Words and the Mind: How words capture human experience. New York: Oxford University Press.
Goddard, Cliff. In press, 2010. “Like a crab teaching its young to walk straight”: The semantics and indexicality of proverbs in English and Malay. In Gunter Senft and Ellen Basso (eds), Ritual Communication. Berg.
Goddard, Cliff. In press. The lexical semantics of ‘language’ (with special reference to ‘words’). Language Sciences.
Goddard, Cliff. 2009. Cultural scripts. In: Gunter Senft, Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren (eds.), Culture and Language Use. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 68-80.
Goddard, Cliff. 2009. The Natural Semantic Metalanguage Approach. In: Bernd Heine and Heiko Narrog (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Analysis. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 459-484.
Goddard, Cliff. 2009. Culture. In: Louise Cummings (ed.), The Pragmatics Encyclopedia. Abingdon/New York: Routledge.
Goddard, Cliff. 2009. A piece of cheese, a grain of sand: The semantics of mass nouns and unitizers. In: Francis Jeffry Pelletier (ed.), Kinds, Things, and Stuff. New York: Oxford University Press.
Goddard, Cliff. 2009. Not taking yourself too seriously in Australian English: Semantic explications, cultural scripts, corpus evidence. Intercultural Pragmatics 6(1), 29-53.
Goddard, Cliff. 2009. The ‘communication concept’ and the ‘language concept’ in everyday English. Australian Journal of Linguistics 29(1), 11-25. (Special issue on "Conceptualising communication in linguistics" edited by Michael Haugh and Antony J. Liddicoat)
Goddard, Cliff. 2009. The conceptual semantics of numbers and counting: An NSM analysis. Functions of Language 16(2), 193-224.
Goddard, Cliff and Wierzbicka, Anna. 2009. Contrastive semantics of
physical activity verbs: ‘Cutting’ and ‘chopping’ in English, Polish,
and Japanese. Language Sciences. 31, 60-96.
Goddard, Cliff and Wierzbicka, Anna. 2008. Universal human concepts as a basis for contrastive linguistic semantics. In: María de los Ángeles Gómez-Gonzáles, Lachlan Mackenzie, Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen and Elsa Gonzáles Álvarez (eds), Current Trends in Contrastive Linguistics: Functional and cognitive perspectives. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 205-226.
Goddard, Cliff. 2008. Contrastive semantics and cultural psychology: English heart vs Malay hati. In: Farzad Sharifian, René Dirven, Ning Yu and Susanne Niemeier (eds), Culture, Body, and Language: Conceptualizations of internal body organs across cultures and languages. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 75-102.
Goddard, Cliff. 2008. Natural Semantic Metalanguage: The state of the art. In: Cliff Goddard (ed.), Cross-Linguistic Semantics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 1-34.
Goddard, Cliff. 2008. Towards a systematic table of semantic elements. In: Cliff Goddard (ed.), Cross-Linguistic Semantics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 59-81.
Goddard, Cliff and Karlsson, Susanna. 2008. Re-thinking THINK in contrastive perspective: Swedish vs. English. In: Cliff Goddard (ed.), Cross-Linguistic Semantics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 225-240.
Goddard, Cliff and Wierzbicka, Anna. 2008. New semantic primes and new syntactic frames: "Specificational BE" and "abstract THIS/IT". In: Cliff Goddard (ed.), Cross-Linguistic Semantics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 35-57.
Goddard, Cliff. 2008. Review of Numbers, language and the human mind. Heike Wiese. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2003. Language 84(3), 672-675.
Goddard, Cliff. 2007. A culture-neutral metalanguage for mental state concepts. In: Andrea C. Schalley and Drew Khlentzos (eds), Mental States. Volume 2: Language and cognitive structure. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 11-35.
Goddard, Cliff. 2007. A "lexicographic portrait" of forgetting. In: Mengistu Amberber (ed.) The Language of Memory in a Crosslinguistic Perspective. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 119-137.
Goddard, Cliff. 2007. Semantic primes and conceptual ontology. In: Andrea Schalley and Dietmar Zaefferer (eds), Ontolinguistics: How ontological status shapes the linguistic coding of concepts. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 145-174.
Goddard, Cliff. 2007. Semantic molecules. In: Ilana Mushin and Mary Laughren (eds), Selected Papers of the 2006 Annual Meeting of the Australian Linguistic Society.
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Goddard, Cliff and Wierzbicka, Anna. 2007. Semantic primes and cultural scripts in language teaching and intercultural communication. In: Farzad Sharifian and Gary Palmer (eds), Applied Cultural Linguistics: Implications for second language learning and intercultural communication. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 105-124.
Goddard, Cliff and Wierzbicka, Anna. 2007. NSM analyses of the semantics of physical qualities: Sweet, hot, hard, heavy, rough, sharp in cross-linguistic perspective. Studies in Language 31(4), 765-800.
Goddard, Cliff. 2006. "Lift your game, Martina!" – Deadpan jocular irony and the ethnopragmatics of "Aussie" English. In: Cliff Goddard (ed.), Ethnopragmatics: Understanding discourse in cultural context. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 65-97.
Goddard, Cliff. 2006. Ethnopragmatics. A new paradigm. In: Cliff Goddard (ed), Ethnopragmatics: Understanding discourse in cultural context. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 1-30.
Goddard, Cliff. 2006. Verbal explication and the place of NSM semantics in cognitive linguistics. In: June Luchjenbroers (ed.), Cognitive Linguistics: Investigations across Languages, Fields, and Philosophical Boundaries. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 189-218.
Goddard, Cliff and Peeters, Bert. 2006. The Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) approach: An overview with reference to the most important Romance languages. In Peeters, Bert (ed.), Semantic Primes and Universal Grammar: Evidence from the Romance languages. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 17-50.
Goddard, Cliff. 2005. Natural Semantic Metalanguage. Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd edition. Edited by Keith Brown. 544-551.
Goddard, Cliff. 2005. The lexical semantics of culture. Language Sciences 27, 51-73.
Goddard, Cliff. 2004. "Cultural scripts": A new medium for ethnopragmatic instruction. In: Michel Achard and Susanne Niemeier (eds), Cognitive Linguistics, Second Language Acquisition, and Foreign Language Teaching. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 143-163.
Goddard, Cliff. 2004. Semantic primes within and across languages. In: Dominique Willems, Bart Defrancq, Timothy Colleman and Dirk Noël (eds) Contrastive Analysis in Language: Identifying linguistic units of comparison. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan. 13-43.
Goddard, Cliff. 2004. The ethnopragmatics and semantics of 'active metaphors'. Journal of Pragmatics 36, 1211-1230. (Special Issue on "Metaphor", edited by Gerard Steen).
Goddard, Cliff and Karlsson, Susanna. 2004. Re-thinking ‘think’: Contrastive semantics of Swedish and English. In: Christo Moskovsky (ed.), Proceedings of the 2003 Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society.
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Goddard, Cliff and Wierzbicka, Anna. 2004. Cultural Scripts: What are they and what are they for? Intercultural Pragmatics 1(2), 153-166.
Goddard, Cliff. 2003. Natural Semantic Metalanguage: Latest perspectives. Theoretical Linguistics 29(3), 227-236.
Goddard, Cliff. 2003. Dynamic ter- in Malay (Bahasa Melayu): A study in grammatical polysemy. Studies in Language 27(2), 287-322.
Goddard, Cliff. 2003. ‘Thinking’ across languages and cultures: Six dimensions of variation. Cognitive Linguistics 14(2/3). 109-140.
Goddard, Cliff. 2003. Whorf meets Wierzbicka: Variation and universals in language and thinking. Language Sciences 25(4), 393-432.
Goddard, Cliff. 2002. On and on: Verbal explications for a polysemic network. Cognitive Linguistics 13(3), 277-294.
Goddard, Cliff. 2002. The search for the shared semantic core of all languages. In: Cliff Goddard and Anna Wierzbicka (eds), Meaning and Universal Grammar – Theory and Empirical Findings, Volume I. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 5-41.
Goddard, Cliff. 2002. Semantic primes and universal grammar in Malay (Bahasa Melayu). In: Cliff Goddard and Anna Wierzbicka (eds), Meaning and Universal Grammar – Theory and Empirical Findings, Volume I. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 87-172.
Goddard, Cliff. 2002. The on-going development of the NSM research program. In: Cliff Goddard and Anna Wierzbicka (eds), Meaning and Universal Grammar – Theory and Empirical Findings, Volume II. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 257-300.
Goddard, Cliff. 2002. Ethnosyntax, ethnopragmatics, sign-functions, and culture. In: N. J. Enfield (ed.) Ethnosyntax: Explorations in grammar and culture. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 52-73.
Goddard, Cliff. 2002. Explicating emotions across languages and cultures: A semantic approach. In: Susan R. Fussell (ed.), The Verbal Communication of Emotions: Interdisciplinary perspectives. Mhawah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. 19-53.
Goddard, Cliff. 2002. Directive speech-acts in Malay: An ethnopragmatic perspective. Les Cahiers de Praxématique 38, 113-143. (Special issue on Intercultural Communication, edited by Christine Béal).
Goddard, Cliff. 2002. Yes or no? The complex semantics of a simple question. Proceedings of the 2002 Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society.
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Goddard, Cliff. 2002. Overcoming terminological ethnocentrism. IIAS Newsletter 27, 28.
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Goddard, Cliff and Harkins, Jean. 2002. Posture, location, existence, and states of being in two Central Australian languages. In: John Newman (ed.), The Linguistics of Standing, Sitting and Lying. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 213-238.
Goddard, Cliff and Wierzbicka, Anna. 2002. Semantic primes and universal grammar. In: Cliff Goddard and Anna Wierzbicka (eds), Meaning and Universal Grammar – Theory and Empirical Findings, Volume I. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 41-85.
Goddard, Cliff and Wierzbicka, Anna. 2002. Lexical decomposition II: Conceptual Axiology. In: D. Alan Cruse, Franz Hundsnurscher, Michael Job, and Peter Rolf Lutzeier (eds), Lexicology: An international handbook on the nature and structure of words and vocabularies. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. 256-268.
Goddard, Cliff and Wierzbicka, Anna. 2002. Semantics and cognition. In: Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science. Editor-in-Chief Lynn Nadel. Nature Publishing Group.
Goddard, Cliff. 2001. Conceptual primes in early language development. In: Martin Pütz and Susanne Niemeier (eds), Applied Cognitive Linguistics I: Theory and language acquisition. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 193-227.
Goddard, Cliff. 2001. Universal units in the lexicon. In: M. Haspelmath, E. König, W. Oesterreicher and W. Raible (eds), Language Typology and Linguistic Universals: An international handbook. Berlin: de Gruyter.
Goddard, Cliff. 2001. Hati: A key word in the Malay vocabulary of emotion. In: Jean Harkins and Anna Wierzbicka (eds), Emotions in Crosslinguistic Perspective. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 171-200.
Goddard, Cliff. 2001. Cultural Semantics and Intercultural Communication. In: D. Killick, M. Perry and A. Phipps (eds), Poetics and Pragmatics of Language and Intercultural Communication. (Proceedings of The 4th Annual Cross-Cultural Capability Conference). Glasgow: Glasgow University Press 33-44.
Goddard, Cliff. 2001. The polyfunctional Malay focus particle pun. Multilingua 20(1), 27-59.
Goddard, Cliff. 2001. Sabar, ikhlas, setia-patient, sincere, loyal? A contrastive semantic study of some "virtues" in Malay and English. Journal of Pragmatics 33, 653-681.
Goddard, Cliff. 2001. Lexico-Semantic Universals: A Critical Overview. Linguistic Typology 5(1), 1-66.
Goddard, Cliff, and Anna Wierzbicka. 2001. Language and society: Cultural concerns. In: N. J. Smelser and P. B. Baltes (eds), International Encyclopedia of Social & Behavioral Sciences. Oxford: Pergamon, 8315-8320.
Goddard, Cliff. 2000. Polysemy: A problem of definition. In: Yael Ravin and Claudia Leacock (eds), Polysemy and Ambiguity: Theoretical and applied approaches. Oxford University Press. 129-151.
Goddard, Cliff. 2000. "Cultural scripts" and communicative style in Malay (Bahasa Melayu). Anthropological Linguistics 42(1), 81-106.
Goddard, Cliff. 1999. Building a universal semantic metalanguage: The semantic theory of Anna Wierzbicka. In: Jacob Mey and Andrzej Boguslawski (eds), ‘E Pluribus Una'. The One in the Many. (RASK, International Journal of Language and Communication 9/10). Odense: Odense University Press. 3-36.
Goddard, Cliff. 1999. Review article: Color Categories in Thought and Language. Linguistic Typology 3, 259-269.
Goddard, Cliff. 1998. Semantic Analysis: A practical introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Goddard, Cliff. 1998. Bad arguments against semantic primitives. Theoretical Linguistics 24(2/3), 129-156.
Goddard, Cliff and Anna Wierzbicka. 1998. Language, culture and meaning: Cross-cultural semantics. In: René Dirven and Marjolijn Verspoor (eds), Cognitive Exploration of Language and Linguistics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 137-159.
Goddard, Cliff. 1997. Contrastive Semantics and Cultural Psychology: "Surprise" in Malay and English. Culture & Pyschology 3(2), 153-181.
Goddard, Cliff. 1997. The universal syntax of semantic primitives. Language Sciences 19(3), 197-207.
Goddard, Cliff. 1997. Semantic primes and grammatical categories. Australian Journal of Linguistics 17(1), 1-42.
Goddard, Cliff. 1997. The semantics of coming and going. Pragmatics 7(2), 147-162.
Goddard, Cliff and Anna Wierzbicka. 1997. Discourse and Culture. In: Teun van Dijk (ed.) Discourse as Social Interaction. London: Sage Publications. 231-257.
Goddard, Cliff. 1996. Can linguists help judges know what they mean? Linguistic semantics in the courtroom. Forensic Linguistics 3(2), 250-272.
Goddard, Cliff. 1996. Cross-linguistic research on metaphor. Language and Communication 16(2), 145-151.
Goddard, Cliff. 1995. Cognitive mapping' or 'verbal explication'?: Understanding love on the Malay archipelago. Semiotica 106(3/4), 323-354.
Goddard, Cliff. 1995. Conceptual and cultural issues in emotion research. Culture & Psychology 1(2), 289-298.
Goddard, Cliff. 1995. Review article: Lucy's "grammatical categories and cognition". American Ethnologist 22(3), 617-621.
Goddard, Cliff and Anna Wierzbicka. 1995. Keywords, culture and cognition. Philosophica 55(1), 37-67.
Goddard, Cliff. 1994. Semantic theory and semantic universals. In: Cliff Goddard and Anna Wierzbicka (eds), Semantic and Lexical Universals: Theory and empirical findings. Amsterdam/Philadelphia. John Benjamins. 7-30.
Goddard, Cliff. 1994. Lexical primitives in Yankunytjatjara. In: Cliff Goddard and Anna Wierzbicka, (eds), Semantic and Lexical Universals: Theory and empirical findings. Amsterdam/Philadelphia. John Benjamins. 229-262.
Goddard, Cliff, and Wierzbicka, Anna. 1994. Introducing lexical primitives. In: Cliff Goddard and Anna Wierzbicka, (eds), Semantic and Lexical Universals: Theory and empirical findings. Amsterdam/Philadelphia. John Benjamins. 31-56.
Goddard, Cliff. 1992. Traditional Yankunytjatjara Ways of Speaking-A semantic perspective. Australian Journal of Linguistics 12(1), 93-122.
Goddard, Cliff. 1991. Testing the Translatability of Semantic Primitives into an Australian Aboriginal Language. Anthropological Linguistics 33(1), 31-56.
Goddard, Cliff. 1990. The lexical semantics of 'good feelings' in Yankunytjatjara. Australian Journal of Linguistics 10(2), 257-292.
Goddard, Cliff. 1989. Issues in Natural Semantic Metalanguage. Quaderni di Semantica 10(1), 51-64.
Goddard, Cliff. 1989. Goals and Limits of Semantic Representation. Quaderni di Semantica 10(2), 297-308.
Goddard, Cliff. 1988. Review of Zoltan Kovecses: Metaphors of Anger, Pride and Love - A lexical approach to the structure of concepts. Lingua 77(1), 90-98.
Goddard, Cliff. 1986. The natural semantics of too. Journal of Pragmatics 10(5), 635-645.
Goddard, Cliff. 1982. Case systems and case marking in Australian languages: A new interpretation. Australian Journal of Linguistics 2, 167-196. Download pdf.
Goddard, Cliff. 1979. Particles and illocutionary semantics. Papers in Linguistics 12 (1/2), 185-229.