Professor Cliff Goddard

Adjunct Professor - Faculty of Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences and Education; School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

Cliff Goddard

Email: c.goddard@griffith.edu.au

Qualifications

BA (Hons), PhD (ANU)

Teaching Areas

Dr Goddard teaches in semantics, Asian languages, intercultural communication and general linguistics.

Supervision Areas

Lexical and grammatical semantics, language description and typology, and cross-cultural pragmatics

Research Interests

Dr Goddard's main research interests are in lexical and grammatical semantics, language description and typology, and cross-cultural pragmatics. He has made important theoretical contributions toward the development of the NSM ('natural semantic metalanguage') approach to semantic analysis, in conjunction with the leading figure in this field Prof. Anna Wierzbicka. He has worked extensively on the Western Desert Language of Central Australia, having published a dictionary and grammar of the Yankunytjatjara and Pitjantjatjara dialects of that language. He has also published extensively on the cultural semantics of and pragmatic conventions of Malay (Bahasa Melayu).

Publications

Books

Goddard, C. 2014. (with Anna Wierzbicka). Words and Meanings: Lexical Semantics Across Domains, Languages, and Cultures. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Goddard, C. 2011. Semantic Analysis – A Practical Introduction. [Revised 2nd edition] Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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.

Edited Books

Goddard, C. 2013. (ed.) Semantics And/In Social Cognition. Special Issue of Australian Journal of Linguistics 33(3).

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.

Book Chapters and Journal Articles

Goddard, Cliff, Anna Wierzbicka and Horacio Fábrega, Jr. 2014. Evolutionary semantics: Using NSM to model stages in human cognitive evolution. Language Sciences 42, 60-79.

Goddard, Cliff. 2014. Interjections and emotions (with special reference to "surprise" and "disgust"). Emotion Review 6(1), 53-63.

Goddard, Cliff. 2014. On "Disgust". In Baider, Fabienne and Cislaru, Georgeta (eds.) Linguistic Approaches to Emotions in Context, 73-98. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Goddard, Cliff. 2014. Have to, Have got to, and Must: NSM analyses of English modal verbs of 'necessity'. In Maite Taboade and Radoslava Trnavac (eds.), Nonveridicality and Evaluation: Theoretical, computational and corpus approaches. pp. 50-75. Leiden: Brill.

Goddard, Cliff. 2013. Comparatives without scales: an NSM analysis of English comparative constructions. In John Henderson, Marie-Eve Ritz and Celeste Rodríguez Louro (eds.) Proceedings of the 2012 Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society (Perth, 5-7 December 2012)https://sites.google.com/site/als2012uwa/proceedings.

Goddard, Cliff (with A. Wierzbicka). 2013. Men, women and children: the semantics of basic social categories. In Cliff Goddard and Anna Wierzbicka, Words and Meanings: Lexical Semantics Across Domains, Languages, and Cultures. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 22-54.

Goddard, Cliff (with A. Wierzbicka). 2013. The meaning of "abstract nouns": Locke, Bentham, and contemporary semantics. In Cliff Goddard and Anna Wierzbicka, Words and Meanings: Lexical Semantics Across Domains, Languages, and Cultures. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 205-237.

Goddard, Cliff. 2013. A stitch in time and the way of the rice plant: the semantics of proverbs in English and Malay. In Cliff Goddard and Anna Wierzbicka, Words and Meanings: Lexical Semantics Across Domains, Languages, and Cultures. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 184-204.

Goddard, Cliff. 2013. "The semantic roots and cultural grounding of 'social cognition'". Australian Journal of Linguistics 33. 245-256.

Goddard, Cliff. 2013 (with Barrios Rodríguez, María Auxiliadora). 'Degrad verbs' in Spanish and English: Collocations, Lexical Functions and contrastive NSM semantic analysis. Functions of Language 20(2), 219–249.

Goddard, Cliff. 2013. On the river, on an island, on the street: The semantics of English on-constructions involving "laterality". International Journal of Cognitive Linguistics 3(2). [China].

Goddard, Cliff. 2012. 'Early interactions' in Australian English, American English, and English English: Cultural differences and cultural scripts. Journal of Pragmatics (Special Issue on (Im)politeness in English, edited by Michael Haugh and Klaus Schneider) 44, 1038-1050.

Goddard, Cliff. 2012. Cultural scripts and communication style differences in three Anglo Englishes. In: Kyrk-Kastovsky, Barbara (Ed.), Intercultural Miscommunication: Past and Present. John Benjamins, Amsterdam, 101-120.

Goddard, Cliff. 2012. Semantic primes, semantic molecules, semantic templates: Key concepts in the NSM approach to lexical typology. Linguistics (Special issue on "Lexical Typology", edited by Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm and Martine Vanhove) 50(3), 711-743.

Goddard, Cliff. 2011. The lexical semantics of 'language' (with special reference to 'words'). Language Sciences 33(1), 40-57.

Goddard, Cliff. 2010. Cultural scripts: applications to language teaching and intercultural communication. Studies in Pragmatics (Journal of the China Pragmatics Association) 3, 105–119.

Goddard, Cliff and Wierzbicka, Anna. 2010. Semantics and cognition. In: Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science(WIREs Cognitive Science). Editor-in-Chief Lynn Nadel. 11 pages, unnumbered. Published online 9 July 2010. DOI:10.1002/wcs.101

Goddard, Cliff. 2010. Semantic molecules and semantic complexity (with special reference to "environmental" molecules).Review of Cognitive Linguistics 8(1), 123-155.

Goddard, Cliff and Wierzbicka, Anna. 2010. 'Wanting' is a semantic and conceptual universal (response to Khanina). Studies in Language 34(1), 108-123.

Goddard, Cliff. 2010. Semantic primitives (primes). In: Patrick Colm Hogan (ed.), The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language Sciences (CELS): 740-741.

Goddard, Cliff and Schalley, Andrea C. 2010. Semantic analysis. In: Nitin Indurkhya and Fred J. Damerau (eds.), Handbook of Natural Language Processing, London/New York: CRC Press, Taylor and Francis. 92-120.

Goddard, Cliff. 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. 72-92.

Goddard, Cliff. 2010. The lexical semantics of 'language' (with special reference to 'words'). Language Sciences. [corrected proofs available online DOI: 10.1016/j.langsci.2010.03.003]

Goddard, Cliff. 2010. 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. 132-165.

Memberships

Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities
Professor in Linguistics and Head of School at Griffith University