Elements of a Rhetorical Situation & Stakeholders: How They Benefit Hindsight
A rhetorical situation involves people, events, and relationships related to a problem that can be solved through persuasion. It includes elements like exigence, audience, and constraints, with stakeholders playing a crucial role. Understanding these components and their interplay can provide valuable insights, particularly in hindsight analysis. Explore the dynamics of rhetorical situations and stakeholders in communication contexts for a deeper understanding of persuasive strategies and problem-solving approaches.
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Elements of a Rhetorical Situation and Stakeholders And how they relate to the Benefits of Hindsight Assignment
This situation may be defined as a combination of certain people, events, objects, and even relationships that seem to be related to some problem that can be potentially solved by someone persuading the right people to change the problem (TB 26) Rhetorical Situation The circumstances that cause someone (the rhetorician) to need to speak out about some issue or problem (TB 26)
Elements of a Rhetorical Situation Exigence Audience Constraints
A rhetorical situation comes into existence when we perceive the need for a problem to be solved Exigence Exigence describes what causes such a need (TB 27)
Those who receive the message from the rhetor General Public Audience: various individuals from all walks of life (TB 31) Audience Target Audience: individuals the rhetor intends to persuade and desires to speak with (TB 31)
Any external factors, aside from the rhetor and audience, which could impact a message s success (TB 37) Constraints Often constraints refer to the parameters of composition and the context the audience will receive it in (TB 37)
Since many arguments are more complicated than a black-and-white debate, we use the term stakeholders to identify many people and groups invested in or affected by the problem being discussed (TB 159) Stakeholders
Putting it into Practice After you consider what you think are the rhetorical situation and stakeholders, you will look at an article about what actually happened This process will be similar to how you might select and begin exploring your own event or issue To complete this activity, follow this link: https://forms.gle/jneqSWB CR5mJt83X9
You can begin by asking how the event or issue started (exigence) Once you have selected an issue or event Application to Benefits of Hindsight You can ask who might want to know about this issue, or who could be persuaded (audience) You can ask what kind of challenges there are to this communication (constraints) These questions can help you begin your research, but you should also be thinking about the how s and why s behind these You can ask who might be affected by or would be invested in this issue (stakeholders) answers
