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Randy Allen Harris

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Laura A. Michaelis @congramqueen.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Just back from the exhilarating Rhetoricon symposium at Waterloo rhetoricon.uwaterloo.ca/events/1. Organized by the great @randyallenharris.bsky.social Next up: ICCG14. My Berkeley sis carries the construction torch! @adelegoldberg.bsky.social
PosterMartin PhamWaterloo presenters
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Randy Allen Harris @randyallenharris.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
English 309C, F26: Contemporary Rhetoric, #UWENGL309CF26 (Trudeau, G. (2006, January 14). Doonesbury [Comic strip]. Andrews McMeel Syndication. Copyright © 2006, G. B. Trudeau.)
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Randy Allen Harris @randyallenharris.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
English 101C, Fall 2026: Literature and Rhetoric #UWENGL101CF26
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Randy Allen Harris @randyallenharris.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
New article out, on the semiotics of repetition, prominently featuring prosodic and syntactic parallelism. www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
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Randy Allen Harris @randyallenharris.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
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A Rhetoricon Symposium: Figuring Constructions, Constructing Figures | Waterloo Events | University of Waterloo
A Rhetoricon Symposium: Figuring Constructions, Constructing Figures
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Randy Allen Harris @randyallenharris.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
www.theobserver.ca/news/local-n...
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Woman are 'exceptional leaders' former education minister tells Sarnia-area conference
Eliminating the gender gap in leadership roles leads to better decisions, the Lambton Women’s Leadership Conference was told.
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UWaterloo English @uw-english.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Congratulations to UWaterloo English PhD candidate Melika Hashemi, who has been chosen as a Rungh Wikipedia Scholar. tinyurl.com/4pcztfdw
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PhD student Melika Hashemi and Wikipedia
Congratulations to UWaterloo English PhD candidate Melika Hashemi, who has been chosen as a Rungh Wikipedia Scholar. She will be participating in a Wikipedia edit-a-thon to add content about artist…
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RhetCanada @rhetcan.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
The Rhetoricon Symposium: Figures & Constructions; Constructions & Figures features leading scholars presenting on rhetorical stylistics and grammatical constructions. May 28 and 29, University of Waterloo. tinyurl.com/62aha2sx
Rhetoricon poster with image of man with exposed brain in a sphere. Information available via the link.
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UWaterloo English @uw-english.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Congratulations to all our 2025-2026 English Award winners! Winners' names and photo gallery: tinyurl.com/ysmf7c2z
Group photo: winners of the 2025-2026 English Awards.
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Randy Allen Harris @randyallenharris.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
@bsky.app englishatwaterloo.wordpress.com/2026/03/30/f...
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Figures and Constructions, Constructions and Figures: A Rhetoricon Symposium
Calling all UWaterloo English students and faculty! You’re invited to the Figures and Constructions, Constructions and Figures symposium, held May 28–29th, 2026 at the Davis Centre. This gathering …
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Adele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Constructions = grammar in action: social, rhetorical, meaningful. Excited for this conference, hosted by none other than @randyallenharris.bsky.social!
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Randy Allen Harris @randyallenharris.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Constructions and Figures Symposium at the University of Waterloo 28 & 29 May 2026 featuring Jeanne Fahnestock, @adelegoldberg.bsky.social and @congramqueen.bsky.social. #rhetoric, #linguistics, #constructiongrammar @uwaterlooarts.bsky.social @uwaterloo.ca @uw-english.bsky.social
Event Programme 1Event Programme 2 with QR codes for more details and registration
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Randy Allen Harris @randyallenharris.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Another great podcast, with one of my favourite historians of linguistics. ... I never knew Brigitte Nerlich was so charming. It's lovely to hear the joy she has in her work.
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UWaterloo English @uw-english.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
UWaterloo English's Dr. Paul Ugor is holding a launch for three (!) books he has co-edited. March 19, 11am-12:30pm, DWE 3516 and online. tinyurl.com/muu55jss
Poster for book launch. Information available via the post link.
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UWaterloo English @uw-english.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Congratulations to ARBUS/UWaterloo English student Alicia Wang, who has been awarded a 2026 CBC News summer scholarship for emerging journalists. tinyurl.com/r6r7dp4r
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CBC award for undergrad Alicia Wang
Congratulations to Alicia Wang, soon to graduate from the University of Waterloo’s honours arts and business program with a degree in English, rhetoric and professional communication. She is one of…
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Kavi … @geryon.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
It’s been a delight & an education working with @randyallenharris.bsky.social on this paper in @rhetstm.bsky.social POROI on LLMs ability to synthesize rhetorical figures & linguistic constructions. Worth saying nothing I poast should be construed to reflect the views of my employer or supervisor!
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Randy Allen Harris @randyallenharris.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Great new article by @geryon.bsky.social. "Rhetorical Figures, Grammatical Constructions, and Form/Meaning Alliances in Pretrained Language Models," #rhetoric, #constructiongrammar, #linguistics pubs.lib.uiowa.edu/poroi/articl... pubs.lib.uiowa.edu/poroi/articl...
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Randy Allen Harris @randyallenharris.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
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Randy Allen Harris @randyallenharris.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour... @congramqueen.bsky.social @adelegoldberg.bsky.social
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Rhetorical schemes and Construction Grammar
Abstract 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 ne...
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Randy Allen Harris @randyallenharris.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour... #constructiongrammar #linguistics #Rhetoric #rhetorical
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Rhetorical schemes and Construction Grammar
Abstract 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 ne...
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GhileneH @ghilene.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
I did my homework. Very informative. Thanks ! @randyallenharris.bsky.social @hiphilangsci.bsky.social hiphilangsci.net/2024/11/01/p...
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Podcast episode 42: Randy Harris on the Linguistics Wars
In this interview, we talk to Randy Harris about the controversies surrounding the generative semantics movement in American linguistics of the 1960s and 70s.
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UWaterloo English @uw-english.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Photos featuring some of our proud UWaterloo English MA and PhD grads who received their degrees this Saturday. Congratulations!
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Randy Allen Harris @randyallenharris.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
The newly minted Dr. Kyle Gerber and sidekick. @uwaterlooarts.bsky.social @uw-english.bsky.social
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Randy Allen Harris @randyallenharris.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Great new article by Geoff Pullum on Post, Chomsky, and the roots of generative grammar, written with his customary verve, depth, and precision. doi.org/10.1075/hl.0.... #histlx #Linguistics #LangSky
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The prehistory of generative grammar and Chomsky’s debt to Emil Post | John Benjamins
Summary Generative linguistics has a longer prehistory than most linguists realize. The rewriting systems that Chomsky brought into linguistics as generative grammars were explicitly defined more than...
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HiPhiLangSci @hiphilangsci.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Episode 49 of our podcast is out 🤩 James McElvenny (@jamesmcelvenny.bsky.social) interviews Fritz Newmeyer (University of Washington) about linguistics, history of linguistics, and politics. 🔗 hiphilangsci.net/2025/10/01/p... #Histlx
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Podcast episode 49: Fritz Newmeyer
In this interview, Fritz Newmeyer discusses linguistics, history of linguistics, and politics.
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HiPhiLangSci @hiphilangsci.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
A new podcast episode 🤩 Randy Harris (@randyallenharris.bsky.social) speaks with James McElvenny (@jamesmcelvenny.bsky.social) about his recent book A History of Modern Linguistics. hiphilangsci.net/2025/09/15/p... #Histlx
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Podcast episode 48: A History of Modern Linguistics
In this interview, Randy Harris interviews James McElvenny about his recent book A History of Modern Linguistics.
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Adele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
UPDATE: Abstract deadline: Nov 1, 25! Invited speakers: Corrine Occhino, Dagmar Divjak, Idan Blank, Randy Allen Harris, Gary Lupyan, Laura Michaelis, Kanishka Misra ! @dagmardivjak.bsky.social @randyallenharris.bsky.social @congramqueen.bsky.social @glupyan.bsky.social @kanishka.bsky.social
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Randy Allen Harris @randyallenharris.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Calling all linguists, esp. corpus folks, and digital researchers, One of my students wants to research a grammatical cx on Twitter/X, but the Musk regime restricts searches. Would anyone who has Enterprise or Research access be willing to help? #linguistics #corpuslinguistics #academicbluesky
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Michael Truscello🏴 @mtruscello.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Once again: the GOP is a #fascist party. The CPC contains these elements. There is a tsunami of #reactionary politics on the horizon, because the weaponization of young men in particular goes largely unnoticed (because it's online). Crush them now, or we are in for generations of authoritarianism.
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
When a president promotes sadism and abuse you know that the abuses will quickly get worse. In a few short months the US has moved from kidnapping people off the streets to building concentration camps. There will be much darker days ahead. www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/trum...
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Trump suggests teaching migrants how to run away from alligators
Donald Trump has suggested teaching migrants how to run away from alligators as he toured a new migrant detention center in Florida known as “Alligator Alcaratz”. The US president visited the facility...
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Randy Allen Harris @randyallenharris.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
I try to avoid commenting on US politics except unless it directly affects Canada (tariffs, 51st state horseshit), but this! Jesus! If this doesn't prove unequivocally that the Trump administration hates women then I don't know what proof is. www.science.org/content/arti...
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NIH guts its first and largest study centered on women
The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 10/04/2025
No lawmaker in Congress should be able to own, buy, and sell individual stocks. We need to ban congressional stock trading—and I've got a bill for that.
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Michael Truscello🏴 @mtruscello.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
#Trump #AgeofStupid
Trump launches golden age of stupid
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Michael Truscello🏴 @mtruscello.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Look how hard Western media is trying to avoid saying Israel LIED and MURDERED MEDICS.
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Randy Allen Harris @randyallenharris.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
A podcast episode featuring some of the Rhetoricon Team (there was supposed to be a follow up, but--thanks Doug Ford!--the funding was cut & this turned out to be the very last episode of the Games Institute Podcast 🥲). But you get Sid & Emma & my wonderful team). open.spotify.com/episode/3Pcm...
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057: Discovering Rhetorical Figures with Citizen Science with Adeshola Ogunsanya, Drake Dong, Nathan D’Silva, and Dr. Randy Harris
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Randy Allen Harris @randyallenharris.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Special 25th anniversary issue of POROI, reprinting a dozenish of its most influential articles. Very pleased to be between its covers with the likes of @leahcecc.bsky.social, @creekthinker.bsky.social, @rhetorologist.bsky.social, and @zoltanmajdik.bsky.social pubs.lib.uiowa.edu/poroi/issue/...
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POROI | Issue: Issue: 1(19) POROI’s First 25 Years: Mapping the Past, Charting the Future (2025)
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John Cusack @johncusack.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/02/2025
"coffee is only good when it is served in jim crow conditions"
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Randy Allen Harris @randyallenharris.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Brilliant
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Mark Dingemanse @markdingemanse.net · 03/02/2025
Gleichschaltung is the word you're looking for, @theguardian.com
Rubio declares himself head of USAid as workers locked out of office. Subheading: secretary of state says he has assumed control of agency to 'align' it with Trump's prioritiesThe Nazi term Gleichschaltung (German pronunciation: [ˈɡlaɪçʃaltʊŋ] ⓘ), meaning "synchronization" or "bringing into line", was the process of Nazification by which Adolf Hitler—leader of the Nazi Party in Germany—established a system of totalitarian control and coordination over all aspects of German society "from the economy and trade associations to the media, culture and education".[1]
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Randy Allen Harris @randyallenharris.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Trump is probably not capable of learning, per se, but it will be inescapable even to him that we are polite and congenial until we’re cornered. Then we’re badgers. The Mexicans are pretty tough as well. Vive le Canada! ¡Viva México! Wishing sanity and kindness returns to our US neighbours.
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Randy Allen Harris @randyallenharris.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
@ontarioliberal.bsky.social
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Randy Allen Harris @randyallenharris.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Biden's pardons attempt to inoculate people against political persecution. Trump's pardons reward people for violence, treason, and celebrating his cult of lies.
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Am always thinking of the daily stormer style guide which @ashleyfeinberg.bsky.social published, esp this section on lulz. www.huffpost.com/entry/daily-...
“All of this is aided by a veil of irony. “ Anglin instructs his readers to seem like they are joking
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Le Ca-ghoul @lecagle.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Hell yes.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
This should haunt these folks for this rest of their lives.
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Randy Allen Harris @randyallenharris.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Hard not to love this takedown. Extra props for mentioning Canada’s biggest embarrassment, Jordan what’s his name. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers | Rebecca Shaw
Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg’s desperation to be cool as they suck up to Donald Trump is so cringe it makes my skin crawl
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RhetCanada @rhetcan.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Reminder (and date correction): The proposal deadline for RhetCanada's 2025 annual conference (online May 31 and at George Brown College in Toronto June 4-6) is Saturday, Feb. 1. We look forward to receiving your proposals! CFP: event.fourwaves.com/cssr2025/pages
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The 2025 RhetCanada Conference
Fourwaves - The 2025 RhetCanada Conference
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Lynne Murphy @lynneguist.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Three linguists (I'm one of 'em!) 'coming up roses' in Broadway Buzz: www.broadway.com/buzz/205089/...
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Rose's Turn of Phrase: A Linguistic Exploration of 'Coming Up Roses,' from Gypsy, with Three Linguists
In 1958, the up-and-coming composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim was in need of a phrase. He was working on the lyrics for the musical Gypsy, specifically …
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Randy Allen Harris @randyallenharris.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
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CIPSH: World Logic Day
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