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  1. ‘Long’, ‘flat’, ‘round’, ‘hard’, ‘heavy’, ‘sharp’

    Article • Cognitive Linguistic Studies, October 2024, John Benjamins

    Professor Cliff Goddard

  2. Contrastive Metapragmatics and the Shifting Semantics of “Sarcasm” in English and Danish

    Article • Contrastive Pragmatics, November 2023, Brill

    Professor Cliff Goddard

  3. Applied semantics and climate communication

    Article • Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, July 2023, John Benjamins

    Professor Cliff Goddard, Dr Helen Bromhead

  4. The semantics of coming and going

    Article • Pragmatics Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA), July 2022, John Benjamins

    Professor Cliff Goddard

  5. Una aproximación al estilo comunicativo de cercanía interpersonal del español a partir de la teoría de la Metalengua Semántica Natural

    Article • Pragmática Sociocultural / Sociocultural Pragmatics, March 2020, De Gruyter

    Professor Cliff Goddard

  6. The semantics of evaluational adjectives

    Article • Functions of Language, November 2019, John Benjamins

    Professor Cliff Goddard, Professor Maite Taboada

  7. Explicating verbs for “laughing with other people” in French and English (and why it matters for humour studies)

    Article • Humor - International Journal of Humor Research, September 2019, De Gruyter

    Professor Cliff Goddard

  8. Cognitive Semantics, Linguistic Typology and Grammatical Polysemy: “Possession” and the English Genitive

    Article • Cognitive Semantics, August 2019, Brill

    Professor Cliff Goddard

  9. Reported speech as a pivotal human phenomenon: Commentary on Spronck and Nikitina

    Article • Linguistic Typology, May 2019, De Gruyter

    Professor Cliff Goddard

  10. “Joking, kidding, teasing”: Slippery categories for cross-cultural comparison but key words for understanding Anglo conversational humor

    Article • Intercultural Pragmatics, October 2018, De Gruyter

    Professor Cliff Goddard

  11. “Walking” and “running” in English and German

    Article • Review of Cognitive Linguistics, December 2016, John Benjamins

    Professor Cliff Goddard

  12. Explicating the English lexicon of ‘doing and happening’

    Article • Functions of Language, October 2016, John Benjamins

    Professor Cliff Goddard

  13. "Happiness" and "Pain" across Languages and Cultures

    Article • July 2016, John Benjamins

    Professor Cliff Goddard, Dr Zhengdao Ye

  14. Comment: Lakoff on Metaphor – More Heat Than Light

    Article • Emotion Review, May 2016, SAGE Publications

    Professor Cliff Goddard

  15. The complex, language-specific semantics of “surprise”

    Article • Review of Cognitive Linguistics, December 2015, John Benjamins

    Professor Cliff Goddard

  16. “Swear words” and “curse words” in Australian (and American) English. At the crossroads of pragmatics, semantics and sociolinguistics

    Article • Intercultural Pragmatics, January 2015, De Gruyter

    Professor Cliff Goddard

  17. "Happiness" and "Pain" across Languages and Cultures

    Article • International Journal of Language and Culture, October 2014, John Benjamins

    Professor Cliff Goddard, Dr Zhengdao Ye

  18. Exploring “happiness” and “pain” across languages and cultures

    Article • International Journal of Language and Culture, October 2014, John Benjamins

    Professor Cliff Goddard, Dr Zhengdao Ye

  19. Semantic fieldwork and lexical universals

    Article • Studies in Language, April 2014, John Benjamins

    Professor Cliff Goddard

  20. ‘Degrad verbs’ in Spanish and English

    Article • Functions of Language, September 2013, John Benjamins

    María Auxiliadora Barrios Rodríguez, Professor Cliff Goddard

  21. Semantic molecules and semantic complexity

    Article • Review of Cognitive Linguistics, June 2010, John Benjamins

    Professor Cliff Goddard

  22. ‘Want’ is a lexical and conceptual universal

    Article • Studies in Language, March 2010, John Benjamins

    Professor Cliff Goddard

  23. The conceptual semantics of numbers and counting

    Article • Functions of Language, October 2009, John Benjamins

    Professor Cliff Goddard

  24. Cross-Linguistic Semantics

    Article • April 2008, John Benjamins

    Professor Cliff Goddard

  25. NSM analyses of the semantics of physical qualities

    Article • Studies in Language, August 2007, John Benjamins

    Professor Cliff Goddard

  26. Cognitive Exploration of Language and Linguistics

    Article • June 2004, John Benjamins

    Professor Cliff Goddard, Dr Margaret E. Winters, Professor Wilbert Spooren, Professor René Alfons Dirven, Professor Marjolijn Verspoor, Dirk Geeraerts, Dr. Günter Radden

  27. Dynamic ter - in Malay (Bahasa Melayu)

    Article • Studies in Language, October 2003, John Benjamins

    Professor Cliff Goddard

  28. Meaning and Universal Grammar

    Article • May 2002, John Benjamins

    Professor Cliff Goddard

  29. Meaning and Universal Grammar

    Article • May 2002, John Benjamins

    Professor Cliff Goddard

  30. Cognitive Exploration of Language and Linguistics

    Article • January 1999, John Benjamins

    Professor Cliff Goddard, Dr Margaret E. Winters, Professor Marjolijn Verspoor, Professor René Alfons Dirven, Professor Wilbert Spooren, Dirk Geeraerts, Dr. Günter Radden

  31. Semantic and Lexical Universals

    Article • May 1994, John Benjamins

    Professor Cliff Goddard