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School of Critical and Creative Humanities | David Cheriton School of Computer Science
Department of English, SCCH, Arts
University of Waterloo
Waterloo ON Canada N2L3G1
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The Linguistic Wars: Chomsky, Lakoff, and battle over deep structure
Randy Allen Harris
2nd ed., Oxford University Press, New York, 2021
Randy Allen Harris
Patrick Colm Hogan, The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences, Cambridge University Press, London, 2008
Acoustic dimensions of functor comprehension in Broca's aphasia
Randy Allen Harris
Indiana University Linguistics Club, Bloomington, 1988
Routledge handbook of language and persuasion
Jeanne Fahnestock, Randy Allen Harris, editors
Routledge, 2023
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
Literature, Rhetoric, and Values
Randy Allen Harris, Shelley Hulan, Murray McArthur, editors
Cambridge Scholars Press, Cambridge, UK, 2012
Randy Allen Harris, Chrysanne Di Marco, editors
Argument & Computation, vol. 8(3)
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
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
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
Kavi Duvvoori, Randy Allen Harris
POROI, 20.1(Article 8), 2026
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
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
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
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
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
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
Randy Allen Harris
Douglas Kibbee, Chomskyan Revolutions/Evolutions, John Benjamins, Philadelphia, 2010, pp. 237-264
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
Randy Allen Harris
James Williams, Visions and revisions: Issues in rhetoric and composition, Southern Illinois University Press, 2002, pp. 163-219
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
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
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
[Review] Rhetoric of science meets the Nazis, of Racial hygiene, by Robert Proctor
Randy Allen Harris
Rhetoric Society Quarterly, vol. 19, pp. 65-67
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] Figuring out figuration: A cognitive linguistic account (version 2)
Randy Allen Harris
lingbuzz, 2023
Randy Allen Harris
LINGUIST , vol. 34(1566), 2023 May 19
[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
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
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
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] Darwinism, Design, and Public Education, by John Angus Campbell and Stephen C. Meyer
Randy Allen Harris
vol. 34, 2004, pp. 103-110
[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
Randy Allen Harris
vol. 34(3), Clinical Psychology Pub. Co, 1998, pp. 318-319
[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] 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] 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
Natural language interface usability
Randy Allen Harris, Harry Logan, Andrew McMurry, Glenn Stillar
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
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
Randy Allen Harris
2021
Hello Wolfgang: Reply to Wolfgang Sperlich's "The latter day critics of Noam Chomsky"
Randy Allen Harris
openDemocracy, 2018 Nov
The History of a Science: Unreliable Narrators and How Science Moves On
Randy Allen Harris
openDemocracy, 2018 May
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
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
Response to David Berreby, "Figures of Speech" (on The Linguistics Wars)
Randy Allen Harris
The Sciences, 1994
Response to Review of The Linguistics Wars, by John Lawler
Randy Allen Harris
LINGUIST List, 4.644, 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
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