Cliff Goddard
Cliff Goddard 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. He is considered a leading scholar in the fields of semantics and cross-cultural pragmatics. His work spans English, indigenous [Australian languages], and South East Asian languages. He was elected a Fellow of the Australian [Academy of the Humanities] in 2003.