Selected Bibliography on Grounded Practical Theory
(R. T. Craig, University of Colorado at Boulder, May 2008)
Aakhus, M. (2001). Technocratic and design stances toward communication expertise:
How GDSS facilitators understand their work. Journal of Applied Communication
Research, 29(4), 341-371.
Aakhus, M., & Jackson, S. (2005). Technology, interaction, and design. In K. L. Fitch &
R. E. Sanders (Eds.), Handbook of language and social interaction (pp. 411-435).
Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Agne, R. R. (2007). Reframing practices in moral conflict: Interaction problems in the
negotiation standoff at Waco. Discourse Society, 18(5), 549-578.
Agne, R. R., & Tracy, K. (2001). 'Bible babble': Naming the interactional trouble at
Waco. Discourse Studies, 3(3), 269-294.
Ashcraft, K. L. (2001). Feminist organizing and the construction of "alternative"
community. In G. J. Shepherd & E. W. Rothenbuhler (Eds.), Communication and
community (pp. 79-110). Mahwah, NJ: Lawerence Erlbaum.
Ashcraft, K. L. (2006). Feminist-bureaucratic control and other adversarial allies:
Extending organized dissonance to the practice of “new” forms. Communication
Monographs, 73(1), 55 - 86.
Barge, K. J., & Craig, R. T. (forthcoming). Practical theory. In L. R. Frey & K. N. Cissna
(Eds.), Handbook of applied communication research. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence
Erlbaum Associates.
Castor, T. (2007). Language use during school board meetings: Understanding
controversies of and about communication. Journal of Business Communication,
44(2), 111-136.
Craig, R. T. (1989). Communication as a practical discipline. In B. Dervin, L. Grossberg,
B. J. O'Keefe & E. Wartella (Eds.), Rethinking communication; volume 1:
Paradigm issues (pp. 97-122). Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
Craig, R. T. (1996). Practical-theoretical argumentation. Argumentation, 10, 461-474.
Craig, R. T. (1999). Metadiscourse, theory, and practice. Research on Language and
Social Interaction, 32, 21-29.
Craig, R. T. (2006). Communication as a practice. In G. J. Shepherd, J. St. John & T.
Striphas (Eds.), Communication as …: Perspectives on theory (pp. 38-47).
Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Craig, R. T., & Tracy, K. (1995). Grounded practical theory: The case of intellectual
discussion. Communication Theory, 5, 248-272.
Craig, R. T., & Tracy, K. (2005). "the issue" in argumentation practice and theory. In F.
H. v. Eemeren & P. Houtlosser (Eds.), The practice of argumentation (pp. 11-28).
Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Dempsey, S. E. (2007). Negotiating accountability within international contexts: The role
of bounded voice. Communication Monographs, 74(3), 311 - 332.
Guttman, N. (2007). Bringing the mountain to the public: Dilemmas and contradictions in
the procedures of public deliberation initiatives that aim to get "ordinary citizens"
to deliberate policy issues. Communication Theory, 17(4), 411-438.
Haspel, K., & Tracy, K. (2007). Marking and shifting lines in the sand: Discursive moves
of ordinary democracy. In K. Tracy, J. P. McDaniel & B. E. Gronbeck (Eds.), The
prettier doll: Rhetoric, discourse, and ordinary democracy (pp. 142-175).
Tuscaloosa, AL: The University of Alabama Press.
Mirivel, J. C. (2007). Managing poor surgical candidacy: Communication problems for
plastic surgeons. Discourse & Communication, 1(3), 309-336.
Tracy, K. (1995). Action-implicative discourse analysis. Journal of Language and Social
Psychology, 14, 195-215.
Tracy, K. (1997). Colloquium: Dilemmas of academic discourse. Norwood, NJ: Ablex.
Tracy, K. (1998). Interactional trouble in emergency service requests: A problem of
frames. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 30, 315-343.
Tracy, K. (2005). Reconstructing communicative practices: Action-implicative discourse
analysis. In K. L. Fitch & R. E. Sanders (Eds.), Handbook of language and social
interaction (pp. 301-319). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Tracy, K. (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.
Tracy, K., & Anderson, D. L. (1999). Relational positioning strategies in police calls: A
dilemma. Discourse Studies, 1, 201-225.
Tracy, K., & Ashcraft, C. (2001). Crafting policies about controversial values: How
wording disputes manage a group dilemma. Journal of Applied Communication
Research, 29(4), 297-316.
Tracy, K., & Durfy, M. (2007). Speaking out in public: Citizen participation in
contentious school board meetings. Discourse & Communication, 1(2), 223-249.
Tracy, K., & Muller, H. (2001). Diagnosing a school board's interactional trouble:
Theorizing problem formulating. Communication Theory, 11, 84-104.
Tracy, K., & Tracy, S. J. (1998). Rudeness at 911: Reconceptualizing face and face
attack. Human Communication Research, 25, 225-251.