Rhetoric Role of the Audience Culture Public / Civic Writing

Rhetor Function
Bitzer typical -someone who -mediators -culture affects -responding to form of
audience - responds to an -able to be rhetoric and an exigence. discourse
sender exigence persuaded vice versa -positive -a basis of
receiver -more agency -constraint -act as a modification rhetorical
model in this model constraint -prominent theory
situation -fitting -more
independent response traditional
of the rhetor rhetoric
-rhetorical -speeches
situation -single time
-should and place
address the
exigence
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Vatz -speaker -controls the -passive and -rhetors could -the rhetors -completley
creates the dialogue listen only help shape the have a civic perspective
rhetorical -sets the tone -left under culture duty to gather based
situation -determines persuasion -must be -important but -crafted with
-creation of the and attuned to the controlled by persuasive
reality vs. the situation/how interpretation culture to rhetor ends
reflection of it comes across of which the know what to -rhetor has a -verbal
reality -controls the rhetor creates say. moral communicatio
-language situation -those who -rhetor allows responsibility n vs written
/rhetoric does -more agency were engaging relevant word
not mirror for the rhetor in the bubble culture in. -writing and
reality, but of discourse -culture affects delivery go
rather creates the rhetor into how its
 it (epistemic) perceived by
-collection of the audience.
ideas and -how its
events that delivered
occurs within matters
a bubble -political
speeches
-cuban missile
crisis.
-media
Rice -rhetorical agency is in -multiple a rhetorical prominent in collaborative
ecologies question audiences force Rices model network based
interdependen origins of
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distributed -internet
-place based
rhetoric