Griffith University

List of John Benjamins publications that have an author or editor affiliated with Griffith University*

“Happiness” and “Pain” across Languages and Cultures

Edited by Cliff Goddard & Zhengdao Ye

Subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Cognition and language | Semantics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

[Benjamins Current Topics, 84] 2016. vi, 145 pp. |

Language and Cultural Values: Adventures in applied ethnolinguistics. Special issue of International Journal of Language and Culture 2:2 (2015)

Edited by Bert Peeters

Subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Applied linguistics | Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Communication Studies | Pragmatics

[International Journal of Language and Culture, 2:2] 2015. | special issue

"Happiness" and "Pain" across Languages and Cultures: Special issue of International Journal of Language and Culture 1:2 (2014)

Edited by Cliff Goddard & Zhengdao Ye

Subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Applied linguistics | Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Communication Studies | Pragmatics

[International Journal of Language and Culture, 1:2] 2014. | special issue

Language Description Informed by Theory

Edited by Rob Pensalfini, Myfany Turpin & Diana Guillemin

Subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Language documentation | Theoretical linguistics

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 147] 2014. xii, 391 pp. |

Practical Theories and Empirical Practice: A linguistic perspective

Edited by Andrea C. Schalley

Subjects Cognition and language | Psycholinguistics

[Human Cognitive Processing: Cognitive Foundations of Language Structure and Use, 40] 2012. xi, 338 pp. | edited volume

The Syntax and Semantics of a Determiner System: A case study of Mauritian creole

Diana Guillemin

Subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Generative linguistics | Romance linguistics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

[Creole Language Library, 38] 2011. xviii, 310 pp. | monograph

Teacher Education in CALL

Edited by Philip Hubbard & Mike Levy

Subjects Applied linguistics | Language acquisition | Language teaching

[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 14] 2006. xii, 354 pp. | course book

Language Centres: Their roles, functions and management

David Ingram

Subjects Applied linguistics | Language teaching | Translation Studies

[Language International World Directory, 5] 2001. x, 241 pp. | monograph

Onodera, Takeshi, Kayoko Hashimoto & Kumiko Katayama 2026 Japanese migrant teachers in Australia: The need for strategic professional development to maximise their linguistic and cultural capital

Keywords: Japanese language | language teacher motivation | migrant teacher | professional development | Australia’s teacher education

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics | Online First Publication, 22 pp. | article | open access

Goddard, Cliff, Tine-Marie Junker & Zhengdao Ye 2024  Security, Sicherheit, ānquán : Similar-but-different key concepts in English, German and Chinese

Keywords: security concepts | lexical semantics | discourse of security | natural semantic metalanguage (NSM) | German | Chinese

In: The Cultural Pragmatics of Danger: Cross-linguistic perspectives, Levisen, Carsten & Zhengdao Ye (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 346] pp. 217–235

Sadow, Lauren & Katie Cox 2024 Superheroes, war heroes, health care heroes: The pragmatics of danger and the discourse of heroism

Keywords: semantics | discourse analysis | natural semantic metalanguage | hero | cultural keywords | English | Anglosphere

In: The Cultural Pragmatics of Danger: Cross-linguistic perspectives, Levisen, Carsten & Zhengdao Ye (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 346] p. 86

Diget, Ida Stevia 2024 Emergency messaging and dangerous translations: Case studies of Australian Covid-19 discourse

Keywords: public health communication | public health | translation | Covid-19 | standard translatable english | machine translation | emergency messaging | disaster messaging | CALD communication

In: The Cultural Pragmatics of Danger: Cross-linguistic perspectives, Levisen, Carsten & Zhengdao Ye (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 346] pp. 107–134

Bromhead, Helen 2024 Planet in danger! Climate emotions in English: A cultural pragmatics study of eco-anxiety, grief and distress

Keywords: cultural pragmatics | pragmatics of emotions | natural semantic metalanguage (NSM) | climate emotions | eco-anxiety | ecological grief | ecological distress

In: The Cultural Pragmatics of Danger: Cross-linguistic perspectives, Levisen, Carsten & Zhengdao Ye (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 346] pp. 158–174

Stewart, Nicola & Yangsheng (Danson) Zheng 2024 Generative AI’s recolonization of EFL classrooms: The case of continuation writing

Keywords: generative AI | cultural recolonization | systemic functional linguistics | continuation writing | native-speakerism

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 47:3 pp. 383–409 | article

Green, Matthew, Dzung Dao & Wendy Moyle 2025 Designing socially assistive robots: Qualitative analysis of stakeholders’ expectations and desires

Keywords: Assistive technologies | Dementia | Robots | Human-robot interaction | Design

Interaction Studies 25:2 pp. 218–243 | article

Walker, James A., John Hajek, Debbie Loakes, Chloé Diskin-Holdaway & Gerard Docherty 2024 The sociolinguistics of urban multilingualism: Toronto and Melbourne

In: Multifaceted Multilingualism, Grohmann, Kleanthes K. (ed.) [Studies in Bilingualism, 66] pp. 395–413

Goddard, Cliff 2024 ‘Long’, ‘flat’, ‘round’, ‘hard’, ‘heavy’, ‘sharp’: Basic conceptual building blocks in the realm of the physical

Keywords: conceptual semantics | physical descriptors | NSM | semantic molecule | semantic templates | visuospatial parsing

Cognitive Linguistic Studies 11:2 pp. 251–273 | article

Cao, Deborah 2023 Terminological features of the Chinese legal language

Keywords: Chinese legal language | legal translation | legal concept | legal terms | Chinese law

In: Handbook of Terminology: Volume 3. Legal Terminology, Biel, Łucja & Hendrik J. Kockaert (eds.) [Handbook of Terminology, 3] pp. 173–190 | open access

Schmid, Pascale, Guido Carim jr., David Sargent & Dominique Falla 2023 Type does matter!: A systematic literature review on typographic considerations in publications on electronic documentation in aviation and medicine

Keywords: typography | safety | design | electronic documentation | legibility

Information Design Journal 28:1 pp. 53–92 | article

Bromhead, Helen & Cliff Goddard 2023 Applied semantics and climate communication

Keywords: applied semantics | climate communication | Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) | climate change semantics | accessible communication

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 48:1 p. 4 | article | open access

Arab, Reza 2022 Cultural semantics of the ‘salt’ word in Persian

Keywords: cultural semantics | Persian | namak | salt | Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM)

International Journal of Language and Culture 9:1 pp. 119–150 | article

Hale, Sandra, Jane Goodman-Delahunty, Natalie Martschuk & Julie Lim 2022 Does interpreter location make a difference?: A study of remote vs face-to-face interpreting in simulated police interviews

Keywords: interpreting accuracy | interactional management | video interpreting | telephone interpreting

Interpreting 24:2 pp. 221–253 | article

Davila, Gilder 2022 Teacher talk in English-medium instruction classes in Japanese universities

Keywords: internationalisation of higher education | English-medium instruction in Japan | teacher talk | classroom discourse | horizontal and vertical discourse

Journal of English-Medium Instruction 2:1 pp. 27–49 | article

Park, Eun Kyong, Gregory Vass & Chris Davison 2021 Korean Bibimbap mothers’ family language policies (FLPs) for their children’s bilingualism in Australia

Keywords: bilingualism | Korean Bibimbap mothers in Australia | family language policies (FLPs)

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 45:3 pp. 272–298 | article

Hale, Sandra, Jane Goodman-Delahunty, Natalie Martschuk & Stephen Doherty 2021 The effects of mode on interpreting performance in a simulated police interview

Keywords: interpreting mode | simultaneous | consecutive | legal interpreting

Translation and Interpreting Studies 17:2 pp. 264–286 | article

Thompson, Rachel 2021 Insults in political comments on GhanaWeb: Ethnopragmatic perspectives

Keywords: insult | online interaction | political comments | Ghana | sociocultural norms | GhanaWeb

Pragmatics and Society 12:1 pp. 33–58 | article

Liddicoat, Anthony J. & Andy Kirkpatrick 2020 Dimensions of language education policy in Asia

Keywords: language education policy | Asia | national language | English language | local languages | foreign languages | multilingualism | bilingualism

Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 30:1/2 p. 7 | article

Abkhezr, Peyman, Mary McMahon, Marilyn Campbell & Kevin Glasheen 2020 Exploring the boundary between narrative research and narrative intervention: Implications of participating in narrative inquiry for young people with refugee backgrounds

Keywords: narrative inquiry | qualitative research | narrative intervention | career counselling | career development | future career | refugee | youth | ethics of care | migration

Narrative Inquiry 30:2 pp. 316–342 | article

Taylor-Leech, Kerry 2020 Timorese talking back: The semiotic construction of chronotopes in the Timor Sea protests

Keywords: linguistic landscape | Timor Sea | East Timor | Australia | maritime border | centre-periphery | chronotopes | entanglement

Linguistic Landscape 6:1 pp. 29–51 | article

Goddard, Cliff, Maite Taboada & Radoslava Trnavac 2019 The semantics of evaluational adjectives: Perspectives from Natural Semantic Metalanguage and Appraisal

Functions of Language 26:3 pp. 308–342 | article

Amfo, Nana Aba Appiah, Ekua Essumanma Houphouet, Eugene K. Dordoye & Rachel Thompson 2018 “Insanity is from home”: The expression of mental health challenges in Akan

Keywords: Akan | Ghana | idioms | indirection | mental health | proverbs

International Journal of Language and Culture 5:1 pp. 1–28 | article

Kennedy, Claire & Tiziana Miceli 2017  Lingua e comunità in coro : A community choir as a space for language learning, social interaction, and wellbeing

Keywords: L2 learning | wellbeing | choral singing | L2 community | Italian

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 40:2 pp. 140–158 | article

Levisen, Carsten, Carol Priestley, Sophie Nicholls & Yonatan Goldshtein 2017 The semantics of Englishes and Creoles: Pacific and Australian perspectives

Keywords: Creole semantics | semantics of Englishes | areal semantics | language ideology | sociolinguistic classification

In: Creole Studies – Phylogenetic Approaches, Bakker, Peter, Finn Borchsenius, Carsten Levisen & Eeva M. Sippola (eds.)  pp. 345–368 | open access

Peeters, Bert 2017  APPLIED ETHNOLINGUISTICS is cultural linguistics, but is it CULTURAL LINGUISTICS?

International Journal of Language and Culture 3:2 pp. 137–160 | article

Goddard, Cliff & Zhengdao Ye 2016 Exploring “happiness” and “pain” across languages and cultures

Keywords: cross-linguistic semantics | happiness studies | language and culture. | Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) | pain research

In: “Happiness” and “Pain” across Languages and Cultures, Goddard, Cliff & Zhengdao Ye (eds.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 84] pp. 1–18

Priestley, Carol 2016 The semantics and morphosyntax of tare “hurt/pain” in Koromu (PNG): Verbal and nominal constructions

Keywords: experiencer object constructions | Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) | pain | Papuan languages | prominent noun-phrase marking | serial verb constructions

In: “Happiness” and “Pain” across Languages and Cultures, Goddard, Cliff & Zhengdao Ye (eds.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 84] pp. 123–141

Goddard, Cliff & Anna Wierzbicka 2016 Explicating the English lexicon of ‘doing and happening’

Functions of Language 23:2 pp. 214–256 | article

Goddard, Cliff, Anna Wierzbicka & Jock Wong 2017 “Walking” and “running” in English and German: The conceptual semantics of verbs of human locomotion

Keywords: contrastive semantics | conceptual semantics | lexical polysemy | Manner | verbs of motion | semantic template | Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM)

Review of Cognitive Linguistics 14:2 pp. 303–336 | article

Keen, Deb 2014 Chapter 1. Prelinguistic communication

In: Communication in Autism, Arciuli, Joanne & Jon Brock (eds.) [Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 11] p. 9

Roberts, Jacqueline M.A. 2014 Chapter 3. Echolalia and language development in children with autism

In: Communication in Autism, Arciuli, Joanne & Jon Brock (eds.) [Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 11] pp. 53–74

Kirkpatrick, Andy & Sophiaan Subhan 2014 Non-standard or new standards or errors?: The use of inflectional marking for present and past tenses in English as an Asian lingua franca

Keywords: English as a Lingua Franca | formality | register | tense marking | universals or substrate influence

In: The Evolution of Englishes: The Dynamic Model and beyond, Buschfeld, Sarah, Thomas Hoffmann, Magnus Huber & Alexander Kautzsch (eds.) [Varieties of English Around the World, G49] pp. 386–400

Goddard, Cliff 2014 On “Disgust”

In: Linguistic Approaches to Emotions in Context, Baider, Fabienne H. & Georgeta Cislaru (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 241] pp. 73–98

Goddard, Cliff & Zhengdao Ye 2014 Exploring “happiness” and “pain” across languages and cultures

Keywords: cross-linguistic semantics | pain research | language and culture. | Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) | happiness studies

International Journal of Language and Culture 1:2 pp. 131–148 | article

Priestley, Carol 2014 The semantics and morphosyntax of tare “hurt/pain” in Koromu (PNG): Verbal and nominal constructions

Keywords: pain | prominent noun-phrase marking | Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) | Papuan languages | experiencer object constructions | serial verb constructions

International Journal of Language and Culture 1:2 pp. 253–271 | article

Barrios Rodríguez, María A. & Cliff Goddard 2013 ‘Degrad verbs’ in Spanish and English: Collocations, lexical functions and contrastive NSM semantic analysis

Functions of Language 20:2 pp. 219–249 | article

Kirkpatrick, Andy 2012 Review of International English in Its Sociolinguistic Contexts. Towards a Socially Sensitive EIL Pedagogy by Sandra Lee McKay & Wendy D. Bockhorst-Heng (2008)

English World-Wide 33:1 pp. 120–123 | book review

Kirkpatrick, Andy 2012 Chapter 1. Theoretical issues

In: English in Southeast Asia: Features, policy and language in use, Low, Ee-Ling & Azirah Hashim (eds.) [Varieties of English Around the World, G42] pp. 13–32

Schalley, Andrea C. 2012 Many languages, one knowledge base: Introducing a collaborative ontolinguistic research tool

In: Practical Theories and Empirical Practice: A linguistic perspective, Schalley, Andrea C. (ed.) [Human Cognitive Processing: Cognitive Foundations of Language Structure and Use, 40] pp. 129–156

Schalley, Andrea C. 2012 Practical theories and empirical practice – facets of a complex interaction

In: Practical Theories and Empirical Practice: A linguistic perspective, Schalley, Andrea C. (ed.) [Human Cognitive Processing: Cognitive Foundations of Language Structure and Use, 40] pp. 1–32

Kirkpatrick, Andy & Heng SU 2012 Mǎi dan or mái dan?: ‘I come to buy the bill not to bury it’

Keywords: origins of maidan | Putonghua | questionnaire survey | Cantonese | language change

Chinese Language and Discourse 3:2 pp. 227–246 | article

Grant, Anthony P. & Diana Guillemin 2012 The complex of creole typological features: The case of Mauritian Creole

Keywords: Ile de France Creole | Mauritian Creole | Indian Ocean Creole | typology | Seselwa

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 27:1 p. 48 | article

Poyatos Matas, Cristina & Loredana CuatroNochez 2011 12. Reluctant migrants: Socialization patterns among Salvadorian children

In: Bilingual Youth: Spanish in English-speaking societies, Potowski, Kim & Jason Rothman (eds.) [Studies in Bilingualism, 42] pp. 309–330

Cook, Angela 2011 Recent developments in the use of the plural marker men in Modern Standard Chinese in Taiwan

Keywords: language contact | Mandarin Chinese | Language change | plural suffix men

Chinese Language and Discourse 2:1 pp. 80–98 | article

Cao, Deborah 2012 Legal translation

In: Handbook of Translation Studies: Volume 1, Gambier, Yves & Luc van Doorslaer (eds.) [Handbook of Translation Studies, 1] pp. 191–195

Cavallaro Johnson, Greer 2008 Making visible an ideological dilemma in an interview narrative about social trauma

Keywords: interactional identity | transactional positioning | discourse analysis

Narrative Inquiry 18:2 pp. 187–205 | article

Austin, Helena & Lorelei Carpenter 2008 Troubled, troublesome, troubling mothers: The dilemma of difference in women’s personal motherhood narratives

Keywords: motherhood | motherhood narrative | ADHD | misrecognition | habitus | symbolic violence

Narrative Inquiry 18:2 pp. 378–392 | article

Gardner, Rod & Ilana Mushin 2007 Post-start-up overlap and disattentiveness in talk in a Garrwa Community

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 30:3 pp. 35.1–35.14 | article | open access

Austin, Helena & Richard Fitzgerald 2007 Resisting categorisation: An ordinary mother

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 30:3 pp. 36.1–36.13 | article | open access

Taylor-Leech, Kerry 2007 Review of Joseph, J. E. (2004) Language and Identity: National, Ethnic, Religious

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 30:2 pp. 28.1–28.3 | book review | open access

Hubbard, Philip & Mike Levy 2008 1. The scope of CALL education

In: Teacher Education in CALL, Hubbard, Philip & Mike Levy (eds.) [Language Learning & Language Teaching, 14] p. 3

Eisenchlas, Susana A. & Susan Trevaskes 2003 Creating cultural spaces in the Australian university setting: A pilot study of structured cultural exchanges

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 26:2 p. 84 | article

Ellis, Liz 2002 Teaching from experience: A new perspective on the non-native teacher in adult ESL

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 25:1 p. 71 | article

Cook, Misty & Anthony J. Liddicoat 2002 The development of comprehension in interlanguage pragmatics: The case of request strategies in English

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 25:1 pp. 19–39 | article

Golebiowski, Zosia & Anthony J. Liddicoat 2002 The interaction of discipline and culture in academic writing

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 25:2 pp. 59–71 | article

Sneddon, J.N. 2001 Teaching informal Indonesian: Some factors for consideration

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 24:2 pp. 81–95 | article

Seo, Kyoko & Marilyn McMeniman 1998 Listening strategies used by adult learners of Japanese to comprehend satellite television programs

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics. Series S 15 pp. 139–154 | article

Marilyn, McMeniman & Robyn Evans 1997 The contribution of language learning to the development of cultural understandings

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 20:2 pp. 1–18 | article

Cao, Deborah 1996 On Translational Language Competence

Babel 42:4 pp. 231–238 | article

Cao, Deborah 1996 Towards a Model of Translation Proficiency

Target 8:2 pp. 325–340 | article

Mackerras, Colin 1995 A policy initiative in Asian languages

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics. Series S 12 pp. 1–16 | article

Kim, Chong-Woon & See-Gyoon Park 1995 Pronunciation problems of Australian students learning Korean: Intervocalic liquid consonants

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics. Series S 12 pp. 183–202 | article

Cao, Deborah 1994 Strategies in Translating Oral History Between Chinese and English

Babel 40:3 pp. 137–145 | article

Goddard, Cliff The conceptual semantics of English ‘speak’ (and why it matters)

Keywords: conceptual semantics | lexicogrammar | polysemy | metapragmatics | ethnoaxiology | Anglocentrism

Pragmatics | Online First Publication, 26 pp. | article

Goddard, Cliff & Ulla Vanhatalo “Day” and “night” in the high north: The changing rhythms of light and life in Finland

Keywords: environmental semantics | cultural scripts | semantic molecules | Natural Semantic Metalanguage (nsm) | Finnish language

International Journal of Language and Culture | Online First Publication, 25 pp. | article

Mašková, Stephanie “Half of our lives is about ice”: A postcolonial semantic study of ice place terms in Arctic Danish

Keywords: Ice place terms | Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland) | Arctic Danish | Postcolonial Semantics | landscape terms | climate change linguistics | Natural Semantic Metalanguage (nsm)

International Journal of Language and Culture | Online First Publication, 26 pp. | article

Ye, Zhengdao & Cliff Goddard Conceptualizing the environment: Words as cultural lenses for seeing the world

Keywords: environmental semantics | landscape terms | cultural key words | semantic analysis | Natural Semantic Metalanguage (nsm) | semantic primes and molecules

International Journal of Language and Culture | Online First Publication, 16 pp. | article | open access

*Please note that this list may be inaccurate for older publications.