Context
What is context
The circumstances in which an event occurs that influences the meaning of the moment and the message
This person created the concept of the rhetorical situation
Lloyd Bitzer
This type of question on a survey only allows for prescribed answers
Fixed-response
"Please explain what you do with your spare time" is an example of what type of question
Open-ended
Rhetoric
Religiom, gender, race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status are all examples of
A decisive point at which a response is invited or required
Exigence
What type of language allows you to speak as if you are a member of the group?
"We" language
On January 21, 2009, President Obama took the Oath of Office and delivered a speech to the public. This inaugural address is an example of
A rhetorical situation
Name Aristotle's three components of persuasion
Ethos
Pathos
Logos
When we assume qualities in a person based on qualities of a larger group to which they belong
Stereotyping
Audience
Exigence
Constraints
List three nonverbal messages that audience members do when losing interest in the speaker
Avoiding eye contact
Looking around the room
Shifting in their chairs
Looking at their phones or watches
Mike and Jennifer are debating the issue of student fees for athletics. Jennifer makes some salient points, and pauses, and asks Mike for his opinion. Lloyd Bitzer would consider this decisive point as
Exigence
This is the physiological process of capturing sound
Hearing
This is important to keep in mind when planning activities with a group, especially with large groups
Meeting space
The context of a rhetorical act is made up of (at least) these four things
A rhetor (speaker)
An issue (exigence)
A medium
An Audience
From the beginning of choosing a topic to the end of the presentation you must always be
Audience oriented
Susan was asked to deliver a sermon at her boyfriend's church on the role of faith in everyday life. The demographic characteristic she should be concerned with the most is
Religion
What are 4 of the 7 components of the transactional model of communication
Sender
Encoding
Message
Decoding
Receiver
Feedback
Noise
Name 5 of the 6 components of context
Who is the audience?
What does the audience know?
Where is the meeting taking place?
When is the meeting?
Why are you meeting?
How are you meeting?
What was Richard Vatz's argument on rhetorical situations?
"Situations do not invite rhetoric, but rather rhetoric creates situations"
What are the three main ways of making use of your knowledge about an audience to augment your ability to successfully appeal to them
Using data to identify with them
Incorporate knowledge of the audience
Clear descriptive statement
Eric was asked to conduct a workshop for an engineering company on "Civility in the Workplace", but he did not know anything about whom he would be speaking. His primary concern is with what aspect of context
Who he is addressing
Name Cicero's five canons of rhetoric
Invention
Arrangement
Style
Delivery
Memory