Randy Allen Harris
List of John Benjamins publications in which Randy Allen Harris is involved.
2026 Rhetorical schemes and Construction Grammar: The argument from chiasmus Constructions and Frames 18:1, pp. 100–138 | Article
Formal rhetorical figures (schemes) have been largely neglected by Construction Grammar (CxG). The losses of this omission are substantial. Like metaphors, schemes leverage general-purpose neurocognitive principles and evoke communicative functions. They give utterances salience and… read more
2022 Chiastic iconicity: Refiguring symmetry Iconicity in Cognition and across Semiotic Systems, Lenninger, Sara, Olga Fischer, Christina Ljungberg and Elżbieta Tabakowska (eds.), pp. 103–134 | Chapter
Chiastic structure (ABBA) leverages the iconicity principles of identity, sequential order, and quantity for consolidated iconicities of harmonious balance and cyclicity, effecting an aesthetic response that is very often but somewhat incongruously associated with mirror-image symmetry. The ABBA… read more
2014 What’s in a name: Journal titles in the field of epistemic research Journal of Argumentation in Context 3:3, pp. 259–286 | Article
We survey the disciplinary status and the research trends of argumentation studies. Our investigation combines the methods of a literature review and environmental scan. The latter consists in analysis of the linguistic features of journal titles, which we approach as a type of metacommunication.… read more
2010 Chomsky’s other Revolution Chomskyan (R)evolutions, Kibbee, Douglas A. (ed.), pp. 237–264 | Article
Noam Chomsky is closely associated with the eponymous Chomskyan Revolution, a dramatic shift of allegiances, interests, and methodologies in linguistics over the decade or so following his 1957 Syntactic Structures. But these events did not occur in isolation. The developments in linguistics, and… read more
1993 The origin and developmemt of generative semantics Historiographia Linguistica 20:2/3, pp. 399–440 | Article
Against the background of the controversial and polarized work of Frederick Newmeyer and Robin Tolmach Lakoff, this paper chronicles the early development of generative semantics, an internal movement within the transformational model of Chomsky’s Aspects of the Theory of Syntax. The first… read more