The present text, entitled Ten Lectures on
Goddard works primarily in the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (
The China International Forum on Cognitive Linguistics (http://cifcl.buaa.edu.cn/) provides a forum for eminent international scholars to give lectures on their original contributions to the field. It is a continuing program organized by several prestigious universities in Beijing. The following is a list of organizers for
Organizer:
Fuyin (Thomas) Li: PhD/Professor, Beihang University
Co-organizers:
Yihong Gao: PhD/Professor, Peking University
Baohui Shi: PhD/Professor, Beijing Forestry University
Yuan Gao: PhD/Professor, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Ma Sai: PhD, Beijing Normal University
The text is published, accompanied by its audio disc counterpart, as one of the Distinguished Lectures in Cognitive Linguistics. The transcriptions of the video, proofreading of the text and publication of the work in its present book form, have involved many people’s strenuous inputs. The initial transcripts were completed by the following: Yu Shen, Yangrui Zhang, Jinmei Li, Hongxia Jia, Jing Du, Mengmin Xu, Chenxi Niu, Ning Guo, Shu Qi. Jin Mei Li and Hongxia Jia undertook revisions for the whole text. Then we editors did the word-by-word and line-by-line revisions. To improve the readability of the text, we have deleted false starts, repetitions, most fillers like now, so, you know, OK, and so on, again, of course, if you like, sort of, etc. Occasionally, the written version needs an additional word to be clear, a word that was not actually spoken in the lecture. We have added such words within single brackets […]. To make the written version readable, even without watching the film, we’ve added a few “stage directions”, in italics also within single brackets: […]. The stage direction describes what the speaker was doing, such as pointing at a slide, showing an object, etc. The speaker, Professor Cliff Goddard, did the final revisions. The published version is the final version approved by the speaker.
The publication of this book is sponsored by the National Social Science Foundation Award No.13BYY012, and by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (YMF-16-WYXY-010).