C Goddard
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 23933 |
|---|---|
| NOME | C Goddard |
| PRENOMES | C |
| SOBRENOME | Goddard |
| ASSINATURA | GODDARD C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of New England |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2523-2855 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 84 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 385 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 76 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 9 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1930 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
“Day” and “night” in the high north
In Nordic countries, the change of seasons strongly affects the ratio of light and dark per day. The effect is greatest around the summer and winter solstices, when in the far northern latitudes the sun does not set at all in midsummer and does not rise at all in midwinter. The changing hours of daylight have profound practical and psychological effects throughout the year, creating disjuncts between the rhythm of natural light and the rhythms of…
Conceptualizing the environment
This paper provides an overview of how the Natural Semantic Metalanguage ( nsm ) framework can contribute to environmental humanities. It emphasizes the centrality of key words in environmental discourses and explains what “ nsm -enabled” lexical-conceptual semantics based on simple translatable words can offer in this respect. It also provides summary descriptions of each of the Special Issue’s in-depth case studies concerning five distinctive g…
The conceptual semantics of English ‘speak’ (and why it matters)
This study investigates the conceptual semantics of the English verb speak , using the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) approach to semantic analysis. The analysis is corpus-assisted, relying mainly on two corpora: one very large (enTenTen21, more than fifty-two billion words), the other small and purpose-built (about 500 ‘speak’ sentences from twelve recent novels). Using the traditional “definitional” criterion for polysemy, the analysis rec…
The ‘adverb-ly adjective’ construction in English
We investigate a class of adjective phrases composed of a deadjectival adverb ending in -ly and an adjective head (e.g. staggeringly incompetent , absolutely terrific , fiscally responsible ), a compact construction whereby two adjectives may jointly contribute to evaluative meaning. Using corpus methodologies on more than 1 million examples and relying on semantic analyses of about 1,000 instances, we propose that the construction can be divided…
Applied semantics and climate communication
This paper explores ways in which applied semantics (coming out of Natural Semantic Metalanguage approach) can inform effective communicative strategies for action on climate change. After framing discussion, it presents three case studies, which are intentionally disparate in nature: contrastive semantics of the expressions ‘climate crisis’, ‘climate emergency’, and ‘climate catastrophe’; a semantically-enhanced examination of how public inquiri…
Anchoring Anthropological Categories in Simple, Translatable Words
“Art” and “religion” are classic categories of anthropological discourse. Both words can be seen as designating distinctive and profound categories of human action and experience and hold special significance not only for anthropology but also for sociology, history, archeology, and adjacent disciplines. Problematically, however, both words are untranslatable into many languages, and even within European languages, they have been subject to endle…
Contrastive Metapragmatics and the Shifting Semantics of “Sarcasm” in English and Danish
Despite valuable studies into the uses/functions of sarcasm, no previous investigation has focused on the semantics of “sarcasm” as an emic metapragmatic category. We provide a contrastive lexical study of English and Danish using the Natural Semantic Metalanguage ( NSM ) approach. We find that the English noun sarcasm has been undergoing semantic innovation and is now polysemous, as is its corresponding adjective. Roughly, older sarcasm 1 expres…
Le culte de la déesse dardanienne, dea Dard(...), au cœur de la diplomatie divine de l’armée romaine
Tributes to the enigmatic dea Dard (...) show a typically Roman political and religious intention to show respect for a local deity, within the framework of the control of isolated but strategic areas in the heart of the Illyrian region and the province of Moesia Superior. These acts of piety reflect the desire on the part of the Roman authorities to carry out diplomatic action with the local population, particularly in the vicinity of the statio…
Vocabulary of emotions and its development in English, German and other languages
This chapter is about the meanings of emotion words in everyday language. It employs a well-established approach to semantic description, the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) approach, which depicts meanings using paraphrases composed of simple, cross-translatable words. Numerous NSM studies have investigated emotion vocabulary in diverse languages. In broad agreement with many emotion theorists, the picture emerging from this research is that…
The conceptual semantics of “money” and “money verbs”
The central purpose of this study is to apply the NSM (Natural Semantic Metalanguage) method of semantic-conceptual analysis to the word money and to related economic transaction verbs, such as buy, sell and pay, as used in everyday English. It proposes semantic explications for these words on the basis of conceptual analysis and a range of linguistic evidence and taking account of lexical polysemy. Even in its basic meaning (in a sentence like t…
The semantics of coming and going
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Laughter, bonding and biological evolution
This paper combines perspectives from evolutionary biology and linguistics to discuss the early evolution of laughter and the possible role of laughter-like vocalisation as a bonding mechanism in hominins and early human species. From the perspective of evolutionary biology, we here emphasise several things: the role of exaptation, the typically very slow pace of evolutionary change, and the danger of projecting backwards from the current utiliti…
Semantics in the time of coronavirus
This study proposes Natural Semantic Metalanguage semantic explications for the English words virus (in two senses), bacteria, germs, and for the related words sick, ill, and disease. We concentrate on their nave or folk meanings (Apresjan 1992) in everyday English, as opposed to scientific or semi-scientific meanings. In this way, the paper makes a start on uncovering the folk epidemiology embedded in the English lexicon. The semantics of words …
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Why the emperor had to be a god
International audience
Cognitive Linguistics
Cognitive linguistics is a broad movement in linguistics whose main unifying ideas are to put meaning (= conceptualization) at the center of language description, and to make language description realistic from a cognitive point of view. This entry outlines the major approaches that are relevant to linguistic anthropology, maps out their differences, samples some exemplary work, and discusses current and future trends
Ethno-Epistemology
De-Anglicising humour studies
This Commentary has two main aims. The first is to argue that systematic approaches to “humour” have been hampered and skewed by terminological Anglocentrism, i.e. by reliance on terms and categories which are English-specific, such as ‘amusing’, ‘joking’, ‘serious’, and ‘mock’, and even by the banner term ‘humour’ itself. Though some humour scholars have recognised this problem, I contend that they have under-estimated its severity. Anglocentric…
Explicating verbs for “laughing with other people” in French and English (and why it matters for humour studies)
This study undertakes a contrastive lexical-semantic analysis of a set of related verbs in English and French (English to joke and to kid , French rigoler and plaisanter ), using the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) approach to semantic analysis. We show that the semantic and conceptual differences between French and English are greater than commonly assumed. These differences, we argue, have significant implications for humor studies: first, …
Joking, kidding, teasing
Terms like to joke (and joking ) and to tease (and teasing ) have a curious double life in contrastive and interactional pragmatics and related fields. Occasionally they are studied as metapragmatic terms of ordinary English, along with related expressions such as kidding . More commonly they are used as scientific or technical categories, both for research into English and for cross-linguistic and cross-cultural comparison. Related English adjec…
Talking about our Bodies and their Parts in Warlpiri
Linguists generally assume that all languages have some words for parts of the human body such as ‘head’, ‘hands’, ‘mouth’ and ‘legs’, but it is not so widely agreed that speakers of all languages can speak—or even consciously think—of the designata of such words as ‘parts of the body’. In particular, it has been claimed that the Australian language Warlpiri lacks any suitable lexical equivalent of ‘part(s)’. Using data from the Warlpiri English …
Ethnopragmatic perspectives on conversational humour, with special reference to Australian English
Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjatjara to English Dictionary
Pitjantjatjara and Yanunytjatjara are two neighbouring dialects of the Western Desert language. They are spoken over a wide area of the Northern Territory and South Australia stretching south from Areyonga to Coober Pedy and beyond, along the Western Australian border and as far as Oodnadatta to the east. The Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjatjara to English Dictionary has been in print since 1992 helping hundreds if not thousands of students and speaker…
What Does Jukurrpa ('Dreamtime', 'The Dreaming') Mean? A Semantic and Conceptual Journey of Discovery
This study presents and justifies a detailed explication for the Australian Aboriginal Jukurrpa concept ('Dreamtime', 'the Dreaming'), phrased exclusively in simple cross-translatable words. The explication, which is partitioned into multiple sections, depicts a highly ramified and multi-faceted concept, albeit one with great internal coherence. After a short introduction, our paper is organised about successive stages in the evolution of the cur…
Lexicographic research on Australian Aboriginal languages 1968-1993
O'Grady (1971:779) began his landmark review of lexicography on Australian Aboriginal languages with rueful observation that in terms of quantity output...has shown a falling off since turn of century. He further observed that if term 'dictionary' were to be confined to compendia of 5,OOO-plus richly detailed lexical entries, then the state of lexicographic research on Australian (and Tasmanian) languages ... can be stated very simply: no such wo…
Case systems and case marking in Australian languages
1982). Case systems and case marking in Australian languages: A new interpretation. Australian Journal of Linguistics: Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 167-196
Cultural scripts
The term cultural scripts refers to a powerful new technique for articu- lating cultural norms, values, and practices in terms which are clear, pre- cise, and accessible to cultural insiders and to cultural outsiders alike. This result is only possible because cultural scripts are formulated in a tightly constrained, yet expressively flexible, metalanguage consisting of simple words and grammatical patterns which have equivalents in all languages…
Traditional yankunytjatjara ways of speaking - a semantic perspective
Early interactions' in Australian English, American English, and English English
Cultural values and 'cultural scripts' of Malay (Bahasa Melayu)
Not taking yourself too seriously in Australian English
In the mainstream speech culture of Australia (as in the UK, though perhaps more so in Australia), taking yourself too seriously is culturally proscribed. This study applies the techniques of Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) semantics and ethnopragmatics (Goddard, Ethnopragmatics: Understanding discourse in cultural context, Mouton de Gruyter, 2006b, Goddard, Cross-linguistic semantics, John Benjamins, 2008; Wierzbicka, Semantics: Primes and u…
The "Social Emotions" of Malay (Bahasa Melayu)
Joking, kidding, teasing
Terms like to joke (and joking ) and to tease (and teasing ) have a curious double life in contrastive and interactional pragmatics and related fields. Occasionally they are studied as metapragmatic terms of ordinary English, along with related expressions such as kidding . More commonly they are used as scientific or technical categories, both for research into English and for cross-linguistic and cross-cultural comparison. Related English adjec…
The ethnopragmatics and semantics of 'active metaphors
Semantic fieldwork and lexical universals
The main goal of paper is to show how NSM findings about lexical universals (semantic primes) can be applied to semantic analysis in little-described languages. It is argued that using lexical universals as a vocabulary for semantic analysis allows one to formulate meaning descriptions that are rigorous, cognitively authentic, maximally translatable, and free from Anglocentrism. A second goal is to shed light on methodological issues in semantic …
Anger in the Western Desert
The lexical semantics of culture
Ethnopragmatic perspectives on conversational humour, with special reference to Australian English
Bad Arguments Against Semantic Primitives
Semantic primitives have fallen on hard times. Though their existence was once widely accepted in linguistics, a variety of counter-arguments have since engendered widespread scepticism. This paper examines a selection of anti-primitives arguments with the aim of showing that they fail to apply to the most resilient and well-developed theory of semantic primitives, namely, Anna Wierzbicka's natural semantic metalanguage theory. The most serious o…
Contrastive Semantics and Cultural Psychology
This paper argues that psychology has yet to come fully to grips with the extent of semantic variation between languages, and that it can benefit, in this regard, from certain developments in linguistic semantics. It outlines Anna Wierzbicka's 'natural semantic metalanguage' (NSM) approach to cross-cultural semantics, and demonstrates the approach through a contrastive study of 'surprise-like' words from two languages: Malay (terkejut, terperanja…
Who are we? The natural semantics of pronouns
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Explicating verbs for “laughing with other people” in French and English (and why it matters for humour studies)
This study undertakes a contrastive lexical-semantic analysis of a set of related verbs in English and French (English to joke and to kid , French rigoler and plaisanter ), using the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) approach to semantic analysis. We show that the semantic and conceptual differences between French and English are greater than commonly assumed. These differences, we argue, have significant implications for humor studies: first, …
Semantic primes, semantic molecules, semantic templates
The Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) approach has a long track record in crosslinguistic lexical semantics (Wierzbicka 1992, 1996, 1999; Goddard 1998, 2006, 2008, 2011; Harkins and Wierzbicka 2001; Goddard and Wierzbicka 2002; Peeters 2006; Gladkova 2010; Ye 2007a, 2007b, 2010; Bromhead 2009, 2011; Wong 2005, 2010; and other works). It is therefore not surprising that it has a clear theoretical position on key issues in lexical semantic typolo…
The ‘Communication Concept’ and the ‘Language Concept’ in Everyday English
This paper presents a semantic/conceptual analysis of the concepts of communication and language, as represented in the lexicon of everyday English. Section 1 gives a brief orientation to the method to be employed, the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) approach originated by Anna Wierzbicka. In the main body of the paper, I propose semantic explications for several senses of the English words communicate, communication and language, supporting …
The universal syntax of semantic primitives
The lexical semantics of “good feelings” in Yankunytjatjara
Evolutionary semantics
The Semantic Roots and Cultural Grounding of ‘Social Cognition’
Social cognition (roughly, how people think about other people) is profoundly shaped by culture. It cannot be insightfully studied except by methods that are able to tap into the perspectives of cultural insiders, while avoiding the pitfalls of conceptual and terminological Anglocentrism. This paper shows how the analytical concepts and techniques developed by the NSM approach to language description, such as semantic explications and cultural sc…
The lexical semantics of language (with special reference to words)
Letters of Connecticut Federalists 1814-1815
Particles and illocutionary semantics
Despite the communicative importance of connective particles and other ‘discourse‐binding’ devices, their syntax and semantics have been paid little attention. The empirical gist of the present paper is the semantic analysis of a number of English connective particles, including those usually referred to as ‘concessive’ and ‘quasi‐causal’. After a preliminary consideration of the methodology of semantic analysis, there is a discussion to discern …
Case systems and case marking in Australian languages
1982). Case systems and case marking in Australian languages: A new interpretation. Australian Journal of Linguistics: Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 167-196
The natural semantics of too
Verb Serialisation and the Circumstantial Construction in Yankunytjatjara
Language Varieties and Situations - Kenneth Liberman, Understanding interaction in Central Australia
Language Varieties and Situations - Kenneth Liberman, Understanding interaction in Central Australia: An ethnomethodological study of Australian Aboriginal people. Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1985. Pp vii + 344. - Volume 17 Issue 1
The lexical semantics of “good feelings” in Yankunytjatjara
Anger in the Western Desert
Traditional yankunytjatjara ways of speaking - a semantic perspective
The Meaning of Lah
L'A. propose une etude semantique de la particule illocutoire lah, un trait important du malais. Il discute de la nature semantique des particules en general, puis applique a l'analyse de lah l'approche du metalangue semantique naturelle d' Anna Wierzbicka
Semantic and Lexical Universals
This set of papers represents a unique collection; it is the first attempt ever to empirically test a hypothetical set of semantic and lexical universals across a number of genetically and typologically diverse languages. In fact the word 'collection' is not fully appropriate in this case, since the papers report research undertaken specifically for the present volume, and shaped by the same guidelines. They constitute parallel and strictly compa…
Conceptual and Cultural Issues in Emotion Research
The main points of Wierzbicka's (1995) article are summarized, followed by an analysis of some of the concerns that were raised by the commentators. As suggested by its title, 'Emotion and Facial Expression: A Semantic Perspective' is an attempt to apply a uniform framework for semantic analysis to two domains of emotional expression-words and facial expressions-and to advance some hypotheses about how they are related. Wierzbicka argues that lin…
Key Worlds, Culture and Cognition
How much does language influence how we think?How far are the categories of our language contingent and culture-specific?Few questions are of greater significance to the social sciences.In this paper we attempt to demonstrate that linguistic semantics can address these questions with rigour and precision, by analysing some examples of cultural 'key words' in several languages.We want to argue for two complementary positions: on the one hand, that…
Who are we? The natural semantics of pronouns
"Lucy's "grammatical categories and cognition
Grammatical Categories and Cognition. A Case Study of the Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis. JOHN A. LUCY
Can linguists help judges know what they mean? Linguistic semantics in the court-room
This paper considers how linguistic semantics can assist judges in determining the ‘plain meaning’ of words for the purpose of statutory interpretation. It describes the main schools of contemporary semantics, showing that leading experts in the field differ enormously in their basic assumptions and methods. It gives a detailed critique of surveys as a research method in semantics, concentrating on a recent American study (Cunningham et al., 1994…
Cross-linguistic research on metaphor
The "Social Emotions" of Malay (Bahasa Melayu)
Shorter notices
Eco, Umberto. 1995. The search for the perfect language. Translated by James Fentress. (The Making of Europe series.) Oxford, UK and Cambridge, USA: Blackwell. 385pp
Semantic primitives of time and space in Hong Kong Cantonese
Semantic primes and grammatical categories∗
This paper argues that all 55 of the semantic primes currently posited in the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) theory (Wierzbicka 1996) are frequently found as components of grammatically encoded meanings. Examples are taken from a wide variety of the world's languages, and include phenomena such as pronoun systems, indefinites, classifiers, reflexives, experiencer constructions, evidentials, locational deixis, tense systems, diminutives and a…
The universal syntax of semantic primitives
Cultural values and 'cultural scripts' of Malay (Bahasa Melayu)
Contrastive Semantics and Cultural Psychology
This paper argues that psychology has yet to come fully to grips with the extent of semantic variation between languages, and that it can benefit, in this regard, from certain developments in linguistic semantics. It outlines Anna Wierzbicka's 'natural semantic metalanguage' (NSM) approach to cross-cultural semantics, and demonstrates the approach through a contrastive study of 'surprise-like' words from two languages: Malay (terkejut, terperanja…
Bad Arguments Against Semantic Primitives
Semantic primitives have fallen on hard times. Though their existence was once widely accepted in linguistics, a variety of counter-arguments have since engendered widespread scepticism. This paper examines a selection of anti-primitives arguments with the aim of showing that they fail to apply to the most resilient and well-developed theory of semantic primitives, namely, Anna Wierzbicka's natural semantic metalanguage theory. The most serious o…
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