Randy Allen Harris

Professor, University of Waterloo

Publications 2


Citations


Books—Trades and monographs


Figures and Constructions


Randy Allen Harris

Cambridge University Press, 2027


The Linguistic Wars: Chomsky, Lakoff, and battle over deep structure


Randy Allen Harris

2nd ed., Oxford University Press, New York, 2021


Voice Interaction Design


Randy Allen Harris

Patrick Colm Hogan, The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences, Cambridge University Press, London, 2008


The Linguistic Wars


Randy Allen Harris

1st edition, Oxford University Press, New York, 1993


Acoustic dimensions of functor comprehension in Broca's aphasia


Randy Allen Harris

Indiana University Linguistics Club, Bloomington, 1988


Books—Collections


Routledge handbook of language and persuasion


Jeanne Fahnestock, Randy Allen Harris, editors

Routledge, 2023


Rhetoric and incommensurability


Randy Allen Harris, editor

Parlor Press, 2005


Books—Anthologies


Landmark essays in rhetoric of science: Issues and methods


Randy Allen Harris, editor

Routledge, London, 2020


Landmark essays in rhetoric of science: Case studies


Randy Allen Harris, editor

2nd ed., Routledge, 2018


Landmark essays in rhetoric of science: Case studies


Randy Allen Harris, editor

1st edition, Hermagoras Press (a Lawrence Erlbaum Associates imprint), Mahwah, NJ, 1997


Proceedings


Literature, Rhetoric, and Values


Randy Allen Harris, Shelley Hulan, Murray McArthur, editors

Cambridge Scholars Press, Cambridge, UK, 2012


Special numbers


Rhetorical figures


Randy Allen Harris, Chrysanne Di Marco, editors

Argument & Computation, vol. 8(3)


Cognitive allegory


Randy Allen Harris, Sarah Tolmie, editors

Metaphor and Symbol , vol. 26(2), 2011


Rhetoric of science in Canada


Randy Allen Harris, Isabelle Clerc, Zelie Gueval, editors

Technostyle, vol. 16(1), 2000


Technical Communication in Canada


Randy Allen Harris, Pamela Russell, editors

The Journal of Technical Writing and Communication , vol. 24(3), 1994


Articles and chapters


A do-it yourself usability kit (Reprint)


Randy Allen Harris

Proceedings of the Third Conference on Quality in Documentation: Usability Concepts and Procedures. 1992


Ethos management in political marketing videos


Monique Kampherm, Randy Allen Harris

Alex Marland, Thierry Giasson, Elizabeth Dubois, Political Marketing in a Canadian Election, UBC Press


A sound argument


Randy Allen Harris

Blake Scott, Michael Baumtrog, Katerina Stevens, The Audience Answers: Essays in Honour of Christopher W. Tindale, 2027


Rhetorical Schemes and Construction Grammar: The Argument from Chiasmus


Randy Allen Harris

Constructions and Frames, vol. 18(1), 2026, pp. 100-138


The rhetoric of science meets the science of rhetoric (Reprint)


Randy Allen Harris

Poroi, vol. 19(1-2 Special issue on the First 25 Years: Mapping the Past, Charting the Future), 2025


Define Constructions Before Constructions Define You: Rhetorical Figures in the AB Before BA Construction


Romina Hashemi, Huini Chen, Randy Allen Harris

Rhetor, vol. 9, 2024, pp. 11-63


Sex after Technology: The Rhetoric of Health Monitoring Apps and the Reversal of Roe vs. Wade


Kem-Laurin Lubin, Randy Allen Harris

Rhetoric Society Quarterly, vol. 54( 3 Special issue on Rhetoric of/with Artificial Intelligence), 2024, pp. 247-262


Rules are rules: Rhetorical figures and algorithms


Randy Allen Harris

Studies in computational intelligence, Roussanka Loukanova, Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine, Reinhard Muskens, Logic and Algorithms in Computational Linguistics, Springer, 2023, pp. 217-259


The Tropes: Metaphor and Its Friends


Randy Allen Harris

Jeanne D. Fahnestock, Randy Allen Harris, The Routledge Handbook of Language and Persuasion, 1st, Routledge, 2023, pp. 227-245


Rhetoric, Linguistics, and the Study of Persuasion: An Overview and an Introduction.


Randy Allen Harris, Jeanne Fahnestock

Routledge Handbooks in Linguistics series, Jeanne Fahnestock, Randy Allen Harris, Routledge handbook of language and persuasion, Routledge, 2023, pp. 1-24


Grammatical Constructions and Rhetorical Figures: The Case of Chiasmus


Randy Allen Harris

LACUS Forum, 46.1, 2022, pp. 35-61


Chiastic Iconicity: Refiguring Symmetry


Randy Allen Harris

Sara Lenninger, Olga Fischer, Christina Ljungberg, Elzbieta Tabakowska, Iconicity in Cognition and across Semiotic Systems, vol. 18, John Benjamins, Amsterdam, 2022, pp. 103-134


Beauty and Truth, Truth and Beauty: Chiastic Structure Increases the Subjective Accuracy of Statements


Mane Kara-Yakoubian, Alexander C. Walker, Konstantyn Sharpinskyi, Garni Assadourian, Jonathan A. Fugelsang, Randy Allen Harris

Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology / Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale, vol. 76(2), 2022, pp. 144–155


Jagmeet's Kairotic Challenge: Darkface, Turbans, and Hypocrisy Upwards


Randy Allen Harris

Rhetoric, Politics, and Culture, vol. 1, 2021, pp. 171-204


The Cognitive and Computational Programme in Rhetorical Studies


Randy Allen Harris

Rhetor, vol. 7, 2021, pp. 30-39


Ploke


Randy Allen Harris

Metaphor & Symbol, vol. 35, 2020, pp. 23-42


Introduction: Issues and methods in rhetoric of science


Randy Allen Harris

Randy Allen Harris, Landmark essays on rhetoric of science: Issues and methods, Routledge, 2020, pp. 1-38


Dementia, Rhetorical Schemes, and Cognitive Resilience


Randy Allen Harris

POROI, vol. 15, 2020


An Ontological Approach to Meaning Making through PATH and Gestalt Foregrounding in Climax


Lillian A. Black, Katherine Tu, Cliff O'Reilly, Yetian Wang, Paulo Pacheco, Randy Allen Harris

American Journal of Semiotics, vol. 35, 2019


The Fourth Master Trope: Antithesis


Randy Allen Harris

Advances in the History of Rhetoric, vol. 22, The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2019 Jan, pp. 1–26


Introduction: Case studies in the rhetoric of science


Randy Allen Harris

Randy Allen Harris, editor, Landmark Essays on Rhetoric of Science: Case Studies. , 2nd edition, Routledge, 2018, pp. 1-42


Scientific Futures for a Rhetoric of Science: We Do This and They Do That?


David R. Gruber, Randy Allen Harris

POROI, vol. 14, 2018


An Annotation Scheme for Rhetorical Figures


Randy Allen Harris, Chrysanne Di Marco, Sebastian Ruan, Cliff O'Reilly

Argument & Computation, vol. 9, 2018, pp. 155-175


Stasis Salience and the Enthymemic Thesis


Ying Yuan, Randy Allen Harris, Yan Jiang

Language and Semiotic Studies, vol. 3, 2017, pp. 103-124


Rhetorical Figures, Arguments, Computation


Randy Allen Harris, Chrysanne Di Marco

Argument & Computation, vol. 8, 2017, pp. 211-231


A Figurative Mind: Gertrude Buck's The Metaphor as a Nexus in Cognitive Metaphor Theory


Ashley Rose Mehlenbacher, Randy Allen Harris

Rhetorica, vol. 35, 2017, pp. 75-109


Argumentative Meanings and Their Stylistic Configurations in Clinical Research Publications


Olga Gladkova, Randy Allen Harris, Chrysanne Di Marco

Argument & Computation, vol. 6, 2016, pp. 310-346


What's in a Name? Journal Titles in the Field of Epistemic Research


Olga Gladkova, Randy Allen Harris, Chrysanne Di Marco

Journal of Argumentation in Context, vol. 3, 2014


Alan G. Gross: Floppy-Eared Rhetorical Rabbit, Redux


Randy Allen Harris

POROI, vol. 10, 2014


Figural Logic in Mendel's Experiments on Plant Hybrids


Randy Allen Harris

Philosophy and Rhetoric, vol. 46, 2013


The Rhetoric of Science Meets the Science of Rhetoric


Randy Allen Harris

POROI, vol. 9, University of Iowa Libraries, 2013 Apr


Introduction: Values in literature and rhetoric


Randy Allen Harris, Murray McArthur, Shelley Hulan

Edited by Shelley Hulan, Murray McArthur, Randy Allen Harris, Literature, rhetoric, and values, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2012, pp. 1-12


Cognitive Allegory: An Introduction


Randy Allen Harris, Sarah Tolmie

Metaphor & Symbol, vol. 26, 2011


Scheme Trope Chroma Chengyu: Figuration in Chinese Four-Character Idioms


Lynn Chien, Randy Allen Harris

Cognitive Semiotics, vol. 6, 2011, pp. 155-178


Chomsky's Other Revolution


Randy Allen Harris

Douglas Kibbee, Chomskyan Revolutions/Evolutions, John Benjamins, Philadelphia, 2010, pp. 237-264


Keeping Curious Company: Wayne C. Booth's Friendship Model of Criticism and the Work of Hunter S. Thompson


Stefanie Stiles, Randy Allen Harris

College English, vol. 71, 2009, pp. 309-333


Alan Gross and the Rhetoric of Science


Randy Allen Harris

Perspectives on Science, vol. 17, {MIT} Press - Journals, 2009 Oct, pp. 346-380


Reception Studies in the Rhetoric of Science


Randy Allen Harris

Technical Communication Quarterly, vol. 14(3), 2005, pp. 249-255


Assent, dissent, and rhetoric in science (Reprint)


Randy Allen Harris, Timothy Barnett

Teaching Argument in the Composition Course: Background Readings, Bedford/St.Martin's Press, 2002


Knowing, rhetoric, science


Randy Allen Harris

James Williams, Visions and revisions: Issues in rhetoric and composition, Southern Illinois University Press, 2002, pp. 163-219


Other-Words in Silent Spring


Randy Allen Harris

And No Birds Sing: Rhetorical Analyses of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, Southern Illinois University Press, 2000, pp. 126-156


Bakhtin, Phaedrus, and the geometry of rhetoric


Randy Allen Harris, Frank Farmer

Landmark essays on Bakhtin, Lawrence Erlbaum, Mahwah, NJ, 1998, pp. 168-176


Introduction: Case studies in rhetoric of science


Randy Allen Harris

Randy Allen Harris, editor, Landmark essays in rhetoric of science: Case studies, Hermagoras, 1997, pp. xi-xlv


Rhetoric of science in Canada


Randy Allen Harris, Isabelle Clerc, Zélie Guéval

Technostyle, vol. 16, 1995, pp. 1-11


The Chomskyan Revolution II: Sturm und Drang


Randy Allen Harris

Perspectives on Science, vol. 2(1), 1994, pp. 176-230


Technical communication in Canada; La communication technique au Canada


Randy Allen Harris, Pamela Russell

The Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, vol. 24(3), 1994, pp. 1-15


The Chomskyan revolution I: Science, syntax, and semantics


Randy Allen Harris

Perspectives on Science , vol. 2(1), 1994, pp. 38-75


Assent, dissent, and rhetoric in science (Reprint)


Randy Allen Harris, Paul M. Dombrowski

Humanistic aspects of technical communication, Baywood, 1994


Generative semantics: Secret handshakes, anarchy notes, and the implosion of ethos


Randy Allen Harris

Rhetoric Review, vol. 23, 1993, pp. 125-60


The Origin and Development of Generative Semantics


Randy Allen Harris

Historiographia Linguistica , vol. 20, John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1993, pp. 399-440


Posterity as Exigence: Arthur Inman and His Audience


Randy Allen Harris

Rhetoric Society Quarterly (Special Issue on Chaim Perelman). , vol. 22(2), 1992, pp. 51-65


A taxonomy of online information


Randy Allen Harris, William Hosier

Technical Communication, vol. 38(2), 1991, pp. 197-210


Rhetoric of Science


Randy Allen Harris

College English, vol. 53(3), 1991, pp. 282-307


Linguistic guidelines for graphic interfaces


Randy Allen Harris

Linguistic guidelines for graphic interfaces. 1990. IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication 33.1, 46-53. Abstracted by Amy Dassie for an article in Stimulus 18.1:1-4 (1991), the newsletter of the Eastern Ontario chapter of the Society for Technical Communication., vol. 33(1), 1991, pp. 46–53


A do-it yourself usability kit


Randy Allen Harris

The Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 21(4), 1991, pp. 351-368


Social definition in Pride and Prejudice: An exercise in extensional semantics


Randy Allen Harris

English Studies in Canada, 17.2, 1991, pp. 163-176


Assent, Dissent, and Rhetoric in Science


Randy Allen Harris

Rhetoric Society Quarterly, vol. 20(1), 1990, pp. 13-37


Linguistic guidelines for graphic interfaces


Randy Allen Harris

IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, vol. 33(1), 1990, pp. 46-53


Argumentation in Syntactic Structures, An exercise in the rhetoric of science


Randy Allen Harris

Rhetoric Society Quarterly, 19.2, 1989, pp. 105-130


A signal processing component to Broca's aphasia functor deficits


Randy Allen Harris, Lois Marckworth Stanford, Thomas F. Campbell

Neuropsychologia, 27.5, 1989, pp. 599-605


Ethos and the power of Syntactic structures


Randy Allen Harris

Charles W. Kneupper, Rhetoric Society of America, Arlington, 1989, pp. 189–196


The man who was a thing: Criticism and Uncle Tom's cabin


Randy Allen Harris

College English, 50.6, 1988, pp. 37-51


Bakhtin, Phaedrus, and the geometry of rhetoric


Randy Allen Harris

Rhetoric Review , vol. 18(1), 1988, pp. 15-22


Linguistics, technical writing, and generalized phrase structure grammar


Randy Allen Harris

The Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, vol. 18(3), 1988, pp. 227-240


Reviews


[Review] Rhetoric of science meets the Nazis, of Racial hygiene, by Robert Proctor


Randy Allen Harris

Rhetoric Society Quarterly, vol. 19, pp. 65-67


[Review] Shaping Rhetoric of Science: The cases of Dobzhansky, Schrödinger, and Wilson, by Leah Ceccarelli


Randy Allen Harris

Review of Communication, vol. 3(2003), pp. 245-253


[Review] The GUI Style Guide, by Linda Fowler and Victor Stanwick


Randy Allen Harris

The Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, vol. 27, Sage Publications Ltd, pp. 335-40


[Review] Designing Effective Speech Interfaces, by Susan Weinschenk and Dean T. Barker


Randy Allen Harris

Technical Communication, vol. 48(2), pp. 218-222


[Review] The Rhetoric of Science, by Alan G. Gross


Randy Allen Harris

Rhetoric Society Quarterly, vol. 21(4), pp. 32-35


[Review] Recent Trends in Discourse and Dialogue, by Laila Dybkjaer and Wolfgang Minker


Randy Allen Harris

Technical Communication, vol. 55(4), p. 426


[Review] Battle in the mind fields, by John A. Goldsmith and Bernard Laks


Randy Harris

Language, vol. 97(1), 2021, pp. 194-200


[Review] Form and formalism in linguistics, edited by James McElvenny


Randy Allen Harris

Language and History, vol. 64(2), 2020, pp. 132-135


[Review] Tropical Truth(s): The Epistemology of Metaphor and other Tropes, by Armin Burkhardt and Brigitte Nerlich


Randy Allen Harris

Quarterly Journal of Speech , vol. 97(4), 2011, pp. 473-477


[Review] The Rhetorical Power of Popular Culture: Considering Mediated Texts, by Deanna D. Sellnow


Randy Allen Harris

Rhetoric Society Quarterly, vol. 40(3), 2010, pp. 298-302


[Review] Global interface design, by Tony Fernandez


Randy Allen Harris

Technical Communication Quarterly, vol. 5(2), 2009, pp. 202-206


[Review] Rhetorical Figures in Science, by Jeanne Fahnestock


Randy Allen Harris

Rhetoric Society Quarterly , vol. 31(4), Rhetoric Society of America, 2009, pp. 92-104


[Review] Scholarship In the Digital Ages Information, Infrastructure, and the Internet, by Christine L. Borgman


Randy Allen Harris

Technical Communication , vol. 56, 2009, pp. 189-191


[Review] Representing reality: Discourse, rhetoric, and social construction, by Jonathan Potter


Randy Allen Harris

Rhetoric Society Quarterly, vol. 28(2), 2009, pp. 77-92


[Review] Meggs' History of Graphic Design (4th edition), by Philip B. Meggs and revised by Alston W. Purvis.


Randy Allen Harris

Technical Communication, vol. 54, Society for Technical Communication, 2007, pp. 359-385


[Review] The Elements of Typographic Style, by Robert Bringhurst


Randy Allen Harris

vol. 52, Society for Technical Communication, 2005, pp. 476-477


[Review] Voice User Interface Design, by Michael H. Cohen, James P. Giangola, and Jennifer Balogh


Randy Allen Harris

Technical Communication, vol. 52(4), Society for Technical Communication, 2005, p. 476


[Review] Taming HAL: Designing Human Interfaces Beyond 2001, by Asaf Degani


Randy Allen Harris

Technical Communication, vol. 52, 2005, pp. 476-477


[Review] Designing visual language, by Charles Kostelnick and David D. Roberts


Randy Allen Harris

Technostyle, vol. 15(1), 1999, pp. 80-86


[Review] Defining Science. A Rhetoric of Demarcation, by C.A. Taylor


Randy Allen Harris

Argumentation, vol. 13, 1999, pp. 233-236


[Review] Dynamics in Document Design: Creating Text for Readers, by Karen Schriver


Randy Allen Harris

The Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, vol. 28(4), 1998, pp. 293-298


[Review] Noam Chomsky: a life of dissent, by Robert F. Barsky


Randy Allen Harris

Books in Canada , vol. 27(2), Canadian Review of Books Ltd, 1998 Mar, pp. 14-17


[Review] On Knowing - The Natural Sciences, by Richard McKeon


Randy Allen Harris

Rhetoric Review, vol. 14(2), 1996, pp. 424-430


[Review] Discourses of science, by Marcello Pera


Randy Allen Harris

Rhetoric Review , vol. 14, 1995, pp. 207-13


[Review] Wittgenstein on mind and language, by David Stern


Randy Allen Harris

The Globe and Mail, National, 1995 Nov 25


[Review] Discourse of Science, by Marcello Pera


Randy Allen Harris

The Globe and Mail, Metro, 1995 Jun 1


[Review] Empire of words, by John Willinsky


Randy Allen Harris

The Globe and Mail, Metro, The Globe and Mail, 1995 Feb 2


[Review] On language by Rod Mengham


Randy Allen Harris

The Sphere, 1994


[Review] In love with Norma Loquendi, by William Safire


Randy Allen Harris

The Globe and Mail, National, 1994 Dec 24


[Review] The language instinct, by Stephen Pinker


Randy Allen Harris

The Globe and Mail, National, 1994 Jun 18


[Review] Reflections on Chomsky, by Alexander George


Randy Allen Harris

Word, vol. 42, 1991, pp. 327-36


[Review] Racial hygiene, by Robert Proctor


Randy Allen Harris

The Ottawa citizen, 1989 Dec


[Review] Creation and recreation, by Northrop Frye


Randy Allen Harris

Our books now, vol. 4(1), 1981


[Review] The Semantics of Science, by Roy Harris


Randy Allen Harris

Language in Society, vol. 36, 802, pp. 802-805


Technical reports


Natural language interface usability


Randy Allen Harris, Harry Logan, Andrew McMurry, Glenn Stillar

Qjunction Technology, 2000


Q and Portia


Randy Allen Harris

Qjunction Technology, 2000


Productopia meets Q, and Portia too


Randy Allen Harris

Qjunction Technology, 2000


Technical documentation—Online information guidelines


Untitled

Chapters include a general "Introduction," "Categories of online information," "Developing online information," "Writing online information," "Presenting online information," and "Organizing online information." A glossary and a list of references is also included., Northern Telecom and Bell-Northern Research, 1990


NT Signature user interface guidelines


Randy Allen Harris, Miguel Planas (senior author), John Meads, et al.

My principal responsibility was for the chapter, "Linguistic guidelines" (pp. 81-109), a later version of which was published in the I.E.E.E. transactions on professional communication (as above), but I worked extensively on all aspects of the guidelines, and contributed to the writing of several other chapters., Northern Telecom and Bell-Northern Research, 1989


Instructors' manual for Linguistics 382


Randy Allen Harris, Matthew S. Dryer

Modern English Syntax, The Department of Linguistics, University of Alberta, 1985


Editorials, notes, responses, complaints, unrefereed proceedings papers, and other miscellanies


Afterword to The Many Voices of Modern Physics, by Joseph Harmon and Alan Gross


Randy Allen Harris

The Many Voices of Modern Physics, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2023


Articles in the Cambridge encyclopedia of the language sciences


Randy Allen Harris

Patrick Colm Hogan, Cambridge University Press, London, 2008


Foreword to Sarah Cummins translation of Dan Sperber, "Rudiments of Cognitive Rhetoric"


Randy Allen Harris

Rhetoric Society Quarterly, vol. 37, 2007, pp. 357-359


2001 ATTW Bibliography


Randy Allen Harris

2002


2000 ATTW Bibliography


Randy Allen Harris

2001


1999 ATTW Bibliography


Randy Allen Harris

2000


Biographical entries in the Biographical dictionary of Western linguistics


Randy Allen Harris

John Joseph, Pierre Swiggers, Routledge, London, 2000


A note on the Max Planck effect


Randy Allen Harris

Rhetoric Society Quarterly, vol. 28, 1998 Sep, pp. 85-89


Letter to the Editor on Black English


Randy Allen Harris

1994 Jan


The LINGUISTics Wars (author's response)


Randy Allen Harris

LINGUIST List, 4.654, 1993


Response to "Grammar and Technical Writing", by K. Scott Ferguson and Frank Parker


Randy Allen Harris

Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, vol. 22, 1992, pp. 53-56


The Pragmatics of Usability


Randy Allen Harris, Paul Yee

Ann Rockley, Technicom '89 Proceedings, Toronto, 1989, pp. 155-160


Acoustic Dimensions of Functor Comprehension in Broca's Aphasia


Randy Allen Harris, Lois Marckworth Stanford

Proceedings of the Western Conference on Linguistics, University of Oregon, Eugene, 1985