A Rhetoricon Symposium: Figuring Constructions, Constructing Figures

This symposium brings together leading scholars of rhetorical stylistics, construction grammar, and computational linguistics to contribute to an approach at the intersection of figurative patterns and grammatical constructions in the context of neurocognitive exemplar models and Machine Learning.

This approach is one that has been pioneered at UWaterloo largely under the direction of Randy Allen Harris and Chrysanne Di Marco (now emeritus), including two earlier workshops at Waterloo and resulting in many other disseminations, such as a special issue of Argument & Computation, a forthcoming Cambridge University Press book by Harris, and a special issue of Constructions and Frames.