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
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Linguistics, rhetoric, cognitive science, ontologies, constructions, …
Congratulations to UWaterloo English PhD candidate Melika Hashemi, who has been chosen as a Rungh Wikipedia Scholar. tinyurl.com/4pcztfdw
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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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
Congratulations to all our 2025-2026 English Award winners! Winners' names and photo gallery: tinyurl.com/ysmf7c2z
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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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Constructions = grammar in action: social, rhetorical, meaningful. Excited for this conference, hosted by none other than @randyallenharris.bsky.social!
Randy Allen Harris@randyallenharris.bsky.social · 5mo agoConstructions 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
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
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.
HiPhiLangSci@hiphilangsci.bsky.social · 5mo agoBrigitte Nerlich (@bnerlich.bsky.social) on our podcast 🤩 In episode 57, James McElvenny (@jamesmcelvenny.bsky.social) talks with Brigitte Nerlich about her career in the history of linguistics and the public understanding of science. 🔗 hiphilangsci.net/2026/03/15/p... #Histlx
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
Congratulations to ARBUS/UWaterloo English student Alicia Wang, who has been awarded a 2026 CBC News summer scholarship for emerging journalists. tinyurl.com/r6r7dp4r
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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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!
Randy Allen Harris@randyallenharris.bsky.social · 6mo agoGreat 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...
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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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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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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I did my homework. Very informative. Thanks ! @randyallenharris.bsky.social @hiphilangsci.bsky.social hiphilangsci.net/2024/11/01/p...
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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Photos featuring some of our proud UWaterloo English MA and PhD grads who received their degrees this Saturday. Congratulations!
The newly minted Dr. Kyle Gerber and sidekick. @uwaterlooarts.bsky.social @uw-english.bsky.social
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
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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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
Podcast episode 49: Fritz Newmeyer
In this interview, Fritz Newmeyer discusses linguistics, history of linguistics, and politics.
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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
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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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
Adele Goldberg@adelegoldberg.bsky.social · last yr.📌 👉 The 14th International Construction Grammar conference will be held at Princeton, June 4-7, 2026 Usage-based analyses and Empirical methods Stay tuned for updates!
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
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.
Zeteo@zeteo.com · last yr.“We may have to rename this show because you’re a little bit more than a far-right Republican.” @mehdirhasan.bsky.social called out a self-proclaimed ‘fascist’ on the show ‘Surrounded’ where he debated 20 far-right Republicans. Watch the full episode on Jubilee’s YouTube: zeteo.com/p/is-this-th...
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...
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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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...
NIH guts its first and largest study centered on women
The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings
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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.
