Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Journal 6

1. Bitzer believes that there are three components to rhetorical situation. He says that you must have a rhetorical discourse to have a rhetorical situation.

2. Bitzer states in his article “Let us regard rhetorical situation as a natural context of persons, events, objects, relations, and an exigence”.(5) from the reading he points out that there three components to have a rhetorical situation; they are Exigence, an audience, and constraints. An audience that could be influenced by the situation, and for constraints you have people or objects that make up the situation. This is what he means when he talks about rhetorical situation.


3. Exigence is an imperfection; a situation that is in need of immediate assistance. This could be thought of as an obstacle.

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