Cliff Goddard, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Cliff Goddard

Australian linguist

Date of Birth: 05-Dec-1953

Place of Birth: Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Profession: linguist

Nationality: Australia

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Cliff Goddard (born 5 December 1953 in Canberra) is a professor of linguistics at Griffith University, Queensland, Australia. He is, with Anna Wierzbicka, a leading proponent of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage approach to linguistic analysis. Goddard's research has explored cognitive and cultural 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), indigenous Australian languages (Yankunytjatjara, Pitjantjatjara), and South East Asian languages (especially Malay).