Studies in Ethnopragmatics, Cultural Semantics, and Intercultural Communication: Ethnopragmatics and Semantic Analysis

This book is the first in a three—volume set that celebrates the career and achievements of Cliff Goddard, a pioneer of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage approach in linguistics. In addition, it explores ethnopragmatics and conversational humour, with a further focus on semantic analysis more broadly.

Often considered the most fully developed, comprehensive and practical approach to cross—linguistic and cross—cultural semantics, Natural Semantic Metalanguage is based on evidence that there...