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.
