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Minimal English for a Global World Improved Communication Using Fewer Words
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Minimal English for a Global World
Improved Communication Using Fewer Words
Cliff Goddard
Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General
Explores the idea that Global English is not an unmixed blessing as far as intercultural understanding is concerned by demonstrating the values and applications of Minimal English as a communicative tool
Draws on findings from the Natural Semantic Metalanguage research project
Examines all aspects of Minimal English including its scope and history, as well as how it can be applied to varied domains including politics, diplomacy, education and human rights discourse
Cliff Goddard is Professor of Linguistics at Griffith University, Australia, and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. His research interests lie at the intersection of language, meaning and culture. He has published widely in descriptive and theoretical semantics, language description and typology, ethnopragmatics and intercultural communication.
| Publication Date: | 22 June 2018 |
| Publisher: | Springer International Publishing |
| Imprint: | Palgrave Macmillan |
| ISBN-13: | 9783319873329 |
| Format: | Paperback softback |
| Page Count: | 292 |