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Know the 8 components of the specific speech situation:
- Exigence
- practical judgment
- audience
- constraints
- speaker
- occasion
- purpose
- message
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Exigence is...
an experience that makes us feel a combo of
concern and uncertainy,
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Practical judgment is...
the act of defining “something” in terms of a general category for the purpose of making a practical decision,77
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audience is...
anyone that might be influenced by the speech ,79
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constraints are...
obstacles that stand in the way of us and the attainment of our goals ,
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speaker is...
a rhetor that uses persuasive discourse to achieve their goal ,
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occasion is...
the specific setting shared by audi . and rhetor ,
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purpose is...
the reason for and circumstance under which the occasion occured and message spoken language delivered to persuade an audience
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What makes an exigence a rhet. exig
public “ issues that generates concern and uncertainty and which can beresolved in part by rhetorical persuasion 73 Later Crick says a speaker tries to move an audience from a “contested exigence” to an “uncontested exigence”—what does that mean? He is turning to move the audience to a consensus about the issue.74
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The diff. betw. “situated aud.” and “target aud.”
Situated audience is the people physically present; targeted aud. is the people you want to persuade that are capable of acting (ideally the best possible aud,)
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rhetorical constraints are...
obsticales that need to be over caom before persuasion can happen
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internal constraints are..
beliefs, atttidudes and values
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external constraints are...
objects, people, processes, event.
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Does Crick make a distinction betw. a “speaker” and a
“rhetor”?
speaker is the person who simple says words for an audience but the rhetoric a conscious instigator of social action who uses persuasive discourse to achieve his or her ends 84
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How does the occasion “constrain”?
some topics or forms are not appropriate for specific occasions 85
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Rhetorical purpose properly focuses on
what?
The reason for the occasion ??? 93
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Is the message the spoken language itself or something
else?
the spoken language
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Also, does rhetorical public speech include pretty sounding but largely empty words?
- No. That “mere rhetor is empty and is usually used
- to “evaded” rather than “move”90
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Organizational plans for main points
- Problem-solution
- pro-con
- comparative advantage
- Monroe’s Motivated Sequence
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Problem-solution
lays out a problem and presents a clear solution
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pro-con
examines a particular solution to some problem and articulates positives and negatives,
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comparative advantage
puts two competing solutions side- by side, and show how one is more advatage
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Monroe’s Motivated Sequence:
ATTENTION, NEED, SATISFACTION, VISUALIZATION, ACTION
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