Karen Tracy

List of John Benjamins publications in which Karen Tracy is involved.

Journals

Journal of Argumentation in Context

Edited by Nanon Labrie and Menno H. Reijven

ISSN 2211-4742 | E‑ISSN 2211‑4750

Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict

Edited by Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich and Maria Sifianou

ISSN 2213-1272 | E‑ISSN 2213‑1280

Tracy, Karen 2020 Chapter 11. Judicial questioning : How context shapes facework strategies Politeness in Professional Contexts, Archer, Dawn, Karen Grainger and Piotr Jagodziński (eds.), pp. 251–272 | Chapter

Tracy, Karen and Robert T. Craig 2019 Decision announcements in small claims court: A recurring judge dilemma Dialogue in institutional settings, Orletti, Franca and Letizia Caronia (eds.), pp. 65–83 | Article

This study analyzes judges’ decision announcements at the end of small claims hearings when the judge informs the parties who has won. Background on US small claims courts is provided, and the data and grounded practical theory, the analytic approach, are described. Then, we overview the small… read more

Tracy, Karen 2012 Dogmatic dialogue: Essential qualities of judicial opinion-writing (Re)presentations and Dialogue, Cooren, François and Alain Létourneau (eds.), pp. 37–58 | Article

This chapter examines an exchange that occurred among judges in one state supreme court through the texts that announced the court decision regarding the constitutionality of the state’s marriage law prohibiting same-sex couples from marrying. After describing the problem that appellate judges face… read more

Tracy, Karen 2012 Chapter 10. Everyday argument strategies in Appellate Court argument about same-sex marriage Exploring Argumentative Contexts, Eemeren, Frans H. van and Bart Garssen (eds.), pp. 165–178 | Article

Arguments that occur in the legal sphere are often held up as exemplars of good argument conduct, distinctively different from how most ordinary argument proceeds. In this chapter I analyze oral arguments in two cases of the California Supreme Court (In Re Marriage, Strauss v. Horton) as the court… read more

Tracy, Karen 2012 Review of van Eemeren (): Strategic Maneuvering in Argumentative Discourse. Extending the Pragma-Dialectical Theory of Argumentation Journal of Argumentation in Context 1:2, pp. 253–258 | Review

Tracy, Karen and Robert T. Craig 2010 Studying interaction in order to cultivate communicative practices: Action-implicative discourse analysis New Adventures in Language and Interaction, Streeck, Jürgen (ed.), pp. 145–166 | Article

Action-implicative discourse analysis (AIDA) is an ethnographically informed discourse-analytic approach that works to provide normative understandings of situated communicative practices that are action-implicative for social life. Extending the logic of grounded practical theory (Craig and Tracy… read more

Craig, Robert T. and Karen Tracy 2005 1. “The issue” in argumentative practice and theory Argumentation in Practice, Eemeren, Frans H. van and Peter Houtlosser (eds.), pp. 11–28 | Chapter