Karen Tracy

4.2k total citations
78 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Karen Tracy is a scholar working on Language and Linguistics, Literature and Literary Theory and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Karen Tracy has authored 78 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 41 papers in Language and Linguistics, 31 papers in Literature and Literary Theory and 21 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Karen Tracy's work include Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (41 papers), Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (31 papers) and Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (21 papers). Karen Tracy is often cited by papers focused on Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (41 papers), Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (31 papers) and Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (21 papers). Karen Tracy collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and Ireland. Karen Tracy's co-authors include Robert T. Craig, Sarah J. Tracy, Nikolas Coupland, Jessica S. Robles, Catherine Ashcraft, Michael J Papa, Sally Planalp, Donald L. Anderson, Susan Robinson and Martin Smith and has published in prestigious journals such as Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews, Journal of Communication and Communication Research.

In The Last Decade

Karen Tracy

74 papers receiving 2.1k citations

Peers

Karen Tracy
Steven E. Clayman United States
Alexandra Georgakopoulou United Kingdom
Nikolas Coupland United Kingdom
James J. Bradac United States
Helen Spencer‐Oatey United Kingdom
George Psathas United States
Angela Cora Garcia United States
Sally McConnell‐Ginet United States
Kira Hall United States
W. Barnett Pearce United States
Steven E. Clayman United States
Karen Tracy
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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Karen Tracy

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All Works

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Tracy, Karen, et al.. (2023). Pursuing and resisting argumentative projects in Q&A sequences during a trial. Journal of Pragmatics. 215. 178–188. 1 indexed citations
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Tracy, Karen. (2023). “Race Trouble”: Competing Accounts in a Trial About Anti-White Racism. Journal of Language and Social Psychology. 43(1). 14–36.
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Tracy, Karen. (2022). Preliminary jury instructing: a dilemmatic communication practice. Text and Talk. 44(2). 271–291.
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Harwood, Jake & Karen Tracy. (2020). Language—AND—Social Psychology: Epilogue. Journal of Language and Social Psychology. 40(1). 172–178. 4 indexed citations
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Tracy, Karen. (2016). Discourse, Identity, and Social Change in the Marriage Equality Debates. Oxford University Press eBooks. 7 indexed citations
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Tracy, Karen & Robert T. Craig. (2010). Studying interaction in order to cultivate communicative practices: Action-implicative discourse analysis. 6 indexed citations
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Tracy, Karen. (2008). “Reasonable Hostility”: Situation-appropriate face-attack. Journal of Politeness Research. 4(2). 98 indexed citations
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Tracy, Karen, et al.. (2007). The Prettier Doll: Rhetoric, Discourse, and Ordinary Democracy. 14 indexed citations
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Tracy, Karen, et al.. (2007). Speaking out in public: citizen participation in contentious school board meetings. Discourse & Communication. 1(2). 223–249. 36 indexed citations
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Tracy, Karen. (2007). The Discourse of Crisis in Public Meetings: Case Study of a School District's Multimillion Dollar Error. Journal of Applied Communication Research. 35(4). 418–441. 28 indexed citations
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Tracy, Karen. (2007). The Role (Or Not) for Numbers and Statistics in Qualitative Research: An Introduction. Communication Methods and Measures. 1(1). 31–35. 2 indexed citations
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Tracy, Karen & Catherine Ashcraft. (2001). Crafting policies about controversial values: How wording disputes manage a group dilemma. Journal of Applied Communication Research. 29(4). 297–316. 47 indexed citations
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Tracy, Karen, et al.. (2001). `Bible Babble': Naming the Interactional Trouble at Waco. Discourse Studies. 3(3). 269–294. 13 indexed citations
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Tracy, Karen & Sarah J. Tracy. (1998). Rudeness at 911 Reconceptualizing Face and Face Attack. Human Communication Research. 25(2). 225–251. 121 indexed citations
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Tracy, Karen. (1997). Colloquium: Dilemmas of Academic Discourse. 78 indexed citations
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Tracy, Karen, et al.. (1994). The identity work of questioning in intellectual discussion. Communication Monographs. 61(4). 281–302. 33 indexed citations
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Tracy, Karen & Nicole Müller. (1994). Talking About Ideas: Academics' Beliefs About Appropriate Communicative Practices. Research on Language and Social Interaction. 27(4). 319–349. 9 indexed citations
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Tracy, Karen & Nikolas Coupland. (1990). Multiple goals in discourse. Multilingual Matters eBooks. 51 indexed citations
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Tracy, Karen & Eric M. Eisenberg. (1990). Giving criticism: A multiple goals case study. Research on Language and Social Interaction. 24(1-4). 37–70. 24 indexed citations
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Craig, Robert T. & Karen Tracy. (1983). Conversational coherence : form, structure, and strategy. SAGE Publications eBooks. 163 indexed citations

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