Cliff Goddard FAHA (born 5 December 1953 in Canberra) is a professor of linguistics at Griffith University, Queensland, Australia.
[1] He is, with Anna Wierzbicka, a leading proponent of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage approach to linguistic analysis.
He is considered a leading scholar in the fields of semantics and cross-cultural pragmatics.
[3] His work spans English (especially Australian English), indigenous Australian languages (Yankunytjatjara, Pitjantjatjara), and South East Asian languages (especially Malay).
He was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2003.