Bitzer, Lloyd "The Rhetorical Situation"

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Contents 1 Abstract 2 Nature of the Linguistic Sign 3 Possible Implications 4 Glossary Terms

Abstract

In his article, “The Rhetorical Situation” Lloyd Bitzer claims that rhetorical discourse is the response to a rhetorical situation. There are three characteristics of a rhetorical situation.

• Exigence is the urgency for discourse to positively affect a situation.

• Audience is the group of people which can impact change that can be influenced by the discourse of the situation.

• Constraints that are comprised of persons and events that impact the exigence.

These three things have to be identified in order for rhetorical discourse crop up.

Nature of the Linguistic Sign

Possible Implications

Glossary Terms