Tuesday, January 27, 2009

JOURNAL # 6 (no dropbox for the journal)

Dominique Casale
Journal Entry # 6
1. He says it is clear that not every situation has a discourse. No major theorist has ever treated the rhetorical situation thoroughly as a distinct subject in rhetorical theory; in fact, many ignore it. With this, each reader probably can recall a specific time and place where there was opportunity to speak upon an urgent matter, and after the opportunity was gone he created in private thought the speech he should have spoke up and told earlier in the situation. This makes it very clear that situations are not always accompanied by discourse.
2. The rhetorical situation is the nature of those contexts in which the speakers or the writers create rhetorical discourse and Rhetorical situation maybe defined as a complex of persons, events, objects, and relations presenting an actual or potential exigence which can be completely or partially removed if discourse, introduced into the situation, can so constrain human decision or action as to bring about the significant modification of the exigence.
3. “Any exigence is an imperfection marked by urgency; it is a defect, an obstacle, something waiting to be done, a thing which is other than it should be.” An example could be when a student hastily puts together a personal narrative and there are constant grammatical errors and errors within the flow of the paper. The reader can correct and further understand the paper than.

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