Professor Cliff Goddard
Adjunct Professor, School of Behavioural, Cognitive and Social Sciences
Qualifications
BA (Hons), PhD (ANU)
Contact
| Email: | c.goddard@griffith.edu.au |
Dr Goddard has published articles in journals such as Anthropological Linguistics, Australian Journal of Linguistics, Culture & Psychology, Ethos, Forensic Linguistics, Journal of Pragmatics, Language Sciences, Linguistic Typology, Man, Semiotica and Studies in Language. With Anna Wierzbicka, he is co-editor of Semantic and Lexical Universals-Theory and Empirical Findings (John Benjamins, 1994). He is author of two textbooks: Semantic Analysis: A Practical Introduction (Oxford University Press, 1998) and Languages of East and Southeast Asia: An Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2005). He is co-editor, with Anna Wierzbicka, of a two volume collection of studies titled 'Meaning and Universal Grammar' (John Benjamins 2002). He is co-editor, with Anna Wierzbicka, of Cultural Scripts (a 'special issue' of Intercultural Pragmatics, 2004). He is editor of Ethnopragmatics: Understanding Discourse in Cultural Context (Mouton de Gruyter, 2006) and Cross-Linguistic Semantics (John Benjamins, 2008).
In the 1980s Dr Goddard worked in educational applications of linguistics in Central Australia and in language teaching, with the Institute for Aboriginal Development (Alice Springs) and the SA Education Department's Anangu Schools Resource Centre (Ernabella). He has also published on Pitjantjatjara literacy development.
Affiliations
Dr Goddard is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and is Director of the Faculty's Language and Cognition Research Centre (LCRC).
Areas of Teaching
Dr Goddard teaches in semantics, Asian languages, intercultural communication and general linguistics.
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
Dr Goddard's complete publications list is available from the School's Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) site