Published works
Fifty years of scholarship
The published record, 1974–2026 — the DOI-registered works merged with his own final vita (September 2024) — matched against the working archive. A drafts held mark means his dated working drafts of that piece survive on the drives.
2020s
- 2026Artificial Intelligence and the City
- 2025The Cook Inlet Beluga Whale: Global Whaling, Oppositional Activism, and Community Science
- 2024“Game changer”: the AI advocacy discourse of 2023 in the US
- 2024Energy, publics, and the universe of communication: A dialogue with G. Thomas Goodnight
- 2024Correction: “Game changer”: the AI advocacy discourse of 2023 in the US
- 2024Nuclear Power essay and ConclusionPolitical Communication in Japan: Democratic Affairs and the Abe Years (Suzuki ed.), Cambridge UP pbk7 drafts held · 2008-2024
- 2022How to think about cyber sovereignty: the case of China
- 2022The Chattering Mind: A Conceptual History of Everyday TalkPhilosophy & Rhetoricdoi
- 2021The Political Mind and Rhetorical CognitionLocal Theories of Argumentdoi
- 2021Georhetoric: Toward an Anthropology of ArgumentLocal Theories of Argument (Hample ed.), Taylor & Francis2 drafts held · 2023-2023
- 2021Towards a Heliocentric Urbanism? Reconsidering Sunlight Through the Prism of Los Angeles Olympics 2028PARADE proceedings, Cities in a Changing World (CUNY City Tech)
- 2020Material Cultural Diplomacies of the Anthropocene:
- 2020Peitho and the Consolation of Philosophy: A Reply to Blake D. ScottOSSA Conference Archive
- 2020Daylight as Cultural Energy for the CityRapid Cities – Responsive Architectures proceedings (AU Dubai)3 drafts held · 2020-2024
- 2020Seven Ways that the Trump Administration Surrendered our Nation to COVIDself-published, academia.edu, 148pp
2010s
- 2019How to think about cyber sovereignty: the case of China
- 2019“Nasty Women”
- 2019The Liberal-Progressive and Conservative Presumptions:
- 2019Doctor Patient Communication in China: An Ethnographic InquiryProceedings of the 9th ISSA Conference, Sic Sat6 drafts held · 2017-2018
- 2018When things Argue
- 201714 Youth, Networks, and Civic Engagement: Communities of Belonging and Communities of Practice
- 2017YOUTH, NETWORKS, AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT:
- 2017Collaborative Civic Engagement: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Teaching Democracy with Elementary and University StudentsTeaching Civic Engagement Across the Disciplines, APSA2 drafts held · 2017-2017
- 2016China's Green Public Culture: Network Pragmatics and the EnvironmentInternational Journal of Communication 1056 drafts held · 2008-2023
- 2016Ebola: Do Things Argue?Proceedings of the AFA/NCA Alta Conference (Lake ed.), Taylor & Francis47 drafts held · 2015-2023
- 2016Argument and the CybersphereWindsor Studies in Argumentation 3 (von Burg ed.): 154–19676 drafts held · 2006-2018
- 2016Defeasible Rhetoric: Network, Security, and MetonymsOSSA commentary8 drafts held · 2016-2017
- 2016Transgression and Apologia: Disjoining Standpoints of Justice, Publicity and DramaOSSA commentary4 drafts held · 2016-2016
- 2015A Model of Rhetorical Legitimation: The Structure of Communication and Cognition Underlying Institutional Maintenance and Change
- 2015Rhetoric and Communication: Alternative Worlds of InquiryQuarterly Journal of Speechdoi
- 2015Rhetoric, Legitimation, and the End of the Cold War:
- 2015The Rhetorical Tradition, Modern Communication, and the Grounds of Justified Assent
- 2015Drones: Argumentation in a Communication Control SocietyDisturbing Argument (Palczewski ed.), Taylor & Francis13 drafts held · 2013-2016
- 2015The Politics of the SupplementDisturbing Argument (Palczewski ed.), Taylor & Francis16 drafts held · 2012-2019
- 2014Rhetoric, Communication, and Information
- 2014Corina Andone: Argumentation in Political Interviews: Analyzing and Evaluating Responses to Accusations of Inconsistency. John Benjamins, Amsterdam, 2013
- 2014The Student Debt Bubble
- 2014Gabrielle Giffords: A Study in Civil Courage
- 2014A Theory of Rhetorical Legitimation: The Communicative and Cognitive Structure of Institutional Maintenance and ChangeAcademy of Management Review10 drafts held · 2014-2015
- 2013The Virtues of Reason and the Problem of Other Minds: Reflections on Argumentation in a New Century
- 2012Chapter 14. Drug advertising and clinical practice
- 2012The Personal, Technical, and Public Spheres: A Note on 21St Century Critical Communication Inquiry
- 2012The Personal, Technical, and Public Spheres of Argument: A Speculative Inquiry into the Art of Public Deliberation
- 2011From the Great Depression to the Great Recession: The 1932 Hayek-Keynes Debate: A Study in Economic Uncertainty, Contingency, and Criticism
- 2011A doctor’s ethos enhancing maneuvers in medical consultation
- 2011Rhetorical Consciousness and the TelemachusFestschrift for David Zarefsky, U Michigan Press13 drafts held · 2009-2019
- 2010The Metapolitics of the 2002 Iraq Debate: Public Policy and the Network Imaginary
- 2010Rhetoric, Risk, and Markets: The Dot-Com Bubble
- 2010The Metapolitics of the 2002 Iraq Debate: Public Policy and the Network Imaginary
- 2010Work, Wealth, and Worry: The Benefits of Communication Study for Economic LiteracyCommunication Currents 5:67 drafts held · 2010-2019
2000s
- 2009The Duties of Advocacy: Argumentation Under Conditions of Disparity, Asymmetry, and Difference
- 2009The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce
- 2009Strategic maneuvering in direct-to-consumer drug advertising
- 2009The Presidential Debates of 2004: Contested Moments in the Democratic ExperimentControversia 610 drafts held · 2005-2012
- 2008Strategic Maneuvering in Direct to Consumer Drug Advertising: A Study in Argumentation Theory and New Institutional Theory
- 2008Forensics as Scholarship: Testing Zarefsky's Bold Hypothesis in a Digital Age
- 2008Rhetoric, Reflection, and Emancipation: Farrell and Habermas on the Critical Studies of Communication
- 2008China and the United States in a Time of Global Environmental CrisisCommunication and Critical/Cultural Studies 548 drafts held · 2008-2023
- 2008Counterfactual Argumentation & Rhetorical AdvocacyProceedings, 3rd Tokyo Conference on Argumentation6 drafts held · 2008-2014
- 2008Kerry vs. Bush, The 2008 Presidential DebatesControversia22 drafts held · 2005-2007
- 2007The Engagements of CommunicationSeries in Philosophy/Communicationdoi
- 2007Communication and the Humanities: A White PaperNational Communication Association5 drafts held · 2005-2018
- 2006Strategic Doctrine, Public Debate, and the Terror War
- 2006Shared Power, Foreign Policy, and Haiti, 1994: Public Memories of War and RaceRhetoric and Public Affairs 933 drafts held · 2006-2018
- 2006When Reasons Matter Most: Pragma-dialectics and the Problem of Informed ConsentConsidering Pragma-Dialectics, Erlbaum8 drafts held · 2002-2014
- 2006Smoking Guns, Cherry-Picking & Stove-Piping: On Critical Metaphors, Discourse Events and Argumentation GamesProceedings of the 13th Alta Conference7 drafts held · 2005-2014
- 2005The Passion of the Christ Meets Fahrenheit 9/11
- 2005Science and Technology Controversy: A Rationale for Inquiry
- 2005Rhetoric and Political Economy at the Aesthetic Nexus: A Study of Archbishop WhatelyRhetorical Agendas (Bizzell ed.), Erlbaum
- 2005Critical Problems in Argumentation: Selected Papers from the 13th NCA/AFA Conference on ArgumentationNCA/AFA
- 2004Ingenium—Speaking in Community: The Case of the Prince William County Zoning Hearings on Disney's AmericaNew Approches to Rhetoricdoi
- 2004Predicaments of Communication, Argument, and Power: Towards a Critical Theory of ControversyInformal Logicdoi
- 2004Globalization meets 'The New War' on TerrorWar, Law & Rhetoric (Kjeldsen & Meyer eds.), Rhetor Förlag6 drafts held · 2002-2016
- 2004“Iraq is George Bush's Vietnam”: Metaphors in ControversyProceedings, 2nd Tokyo Conference on Argumentation6 drafts held · 2004-2014
- 2003The Wiles of Argument
- 2003Heroic Prudence in Homer's OdysseyISSA Proceedings; republished in Anyone Who Has a View8 drafts held · 2002-2019
- 2002Arguing Communication and Culture: Selected Papers from the 12th NCA/AFA Conference on ArgumentationNCA/AFA, 2 vols., 84 papers
- 2001Controversy, Criticism and Argumentation: A Rationale for Critical StudiesProceedings, 1st International Conference on Argumentation, Tokyo
- 2000Ronald Reagan and the American DreamThe Presidency and Rhetorical Leadership (Dorsey ed.), Michigan State UP3 drafts held · 2009-2019
1990s
- 1999Messrs. Dinkins, Rangel, and savage in colloquy on the African burial ground: A companion readingWestern Journal of Communicationdoi
- 1999Root Metaphors and Critical Inquiry into Social Controversies: Redeeming Stephen PepperAmsterdam Conference Proceedings
- 1999Argument at Century's End: Selected Papers from the 11th NCA/AFA Conference on ArgumentationNCA/AFA
- 1998Argument Studies and Foreign Policy: Connections in ControversyDiplomacy, Triangle Institute for Strategic Studies
- 1997Opening up “the spaces of public dissension”Communication Monographsdoi
- 1997Review essay: Studies in the public sphere
- 1997Argumentation: Proceedings of the 9th SCA/AFA Conference on ArgumentationSCA/AFA
- 1996Hans J. Morgenthau: In Defense of the National Interest and the Recovery of the Rhetorical TraditionThe Rhetoric of Realism (Hariman & Beer eds.), Michigan State UP3 drafts held · 2023-2024
- 1996Reagan, Vietnam and Central America: On Public Memory and the Politics of FragmentationBeyond the Rhetorical Presidency (Medhurst ed.), Texas A&M UP
- 1995The firm, the park and the university: Fear and trembling on the postmodern trailQuarterly Journal of Speechdoi
- 1994Robert Trapp and Janice Schuetz (eds.) (1990),Perspectives on argumentation: Essays in Honor of Wayne Brockriede.
- 1994Entanglements of consumption, cruelty, privacy, and fashion: The social controversy over furQuarterly Journal of Speechdoi
- 1993A ?new rhetoric? for a ?new dialectic?: Prolegomena to a responsible public argument
- 1993Book reviews
- 1993Legitimation Inferences: An Additional Component for the Toulmin Model
- 1993Get a Lifeworld: Reflections on Some Dead Ends and Live PossibilitiesProceedings, 7th SCA/AFA Conference2 drafts held · 2014-2019
- 1993Challenging Social and Communication Norms: Opposition Argument and Social ControversyProceedings, 7th SCA/AFA Conference2 drafts held · 2015-2020
- 1992HABERMAS, THE PUBLIC SPHERE, AND CONTROVERSY
- 1992The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society. By Jürgen Habermas
- 1992Public Argument and ControversyArgumentation and Advocacy 28:2
- 1991Book reviews
- 1990Epochal Rhetoric in 19th Century America: On the Discursive Instantiation of the Technical SphereProceedings, 6th SCA/AFA Conference (Gronbeck ed.)
1980s
- 1989Toward a Social Theory of Argumentation
- 1988Argumentation and the Nuclear AgeArgumentation and Advocacydoi
- 1987Public discourse
- 1987Chapter 12. Generational ArgumentAcross the Lines of Disciplinesdoi
- 1987Argumentation, Criticism, and Rhetoric: Modern and Post-Modern Stances in Humanistic InquiryProceedings, 5th SCA/AFA Conference (Wenzel ed.)
- 1986Ronald Reagan's re‐formulation of the rhetoric of war: Analysis of the “zero option,” “evil empire,” and “star wars” addressesQuarterly Journal of Speechdoi
- 1985Scholarship and the Forensics CommunityAmerican Forensics in Perspective (Parson ed.), SCA16 drafts held · 2009-2024
- 1983On Questions of Evacuation and Survival in Nuclear ConflictArgumentation in Transition: Proceedings, 3rd Summer Conference (Zarefsky ed.)
- 1982The Personal, Technical, and Public Spheres of Argument: A Speculative Inquiry into the Art of Public Deliberation
- 1981Accidental rhetoric: The root metaphors of three mile IslandCommunication Monographsdoi
- 1981Conspiracy rhetoric: From pragmatism to fantasy in public discourseWestern Journal of Speech Communicationdoi
1970s
- 1975Responses to Lichtman and RohrerJournal of the American Forensic Association 11
- 1974The Problem of Inherency: Strategy and SubstanceJournal of the American Forensic Association 10 — AFA Research Award
Undated
- —Complex Cases and Legitimation Inference: Extending the Toulmin Model to Deliberative Argument in Controversy