Randy Allen Harris
List of John Benjamins publications for which Randy Allen Harris plays a role.
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