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    The Rhetorical Situation Language User (Writer/ Speaker/ Artist)

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    This document discusses the rhetorical situation which includes the language user, their purpose, audience, and context. The language user's voice, motivation, intention, beliefs, values and experiences shape their message. The purpose can be to inform, describe, persuade, explain, activate, entertain or forge connection. The audience can be real, imagined, implied or invoked. The rhetorical triangle of user, purpose and audience is embedded within a social, historical, political, ideological, cultural and geographical context that influences communication.

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    This document discusses the rhetorical situation which includes the language user, their purpose, audience, and context. The language user's voice, motivation, intention, beliefs, values and experiences shape their message. The purpose can be to inform, describe, persuade, explain, activate, entertain or forge connection. The audience can be real, imagined, implied or invoked. The rhetorical triangle of user, purpose and audience is embedded within a social, historical, political, ideological, cultural and geographical context that influences communication.

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    The Rhetorical Situation

    Language User (Writer/ Speaker/ Artist)


    Voice
    Motivation
    Intention
    Beliefs
    Values
    Experiences

    TEXT
    TEXT

    Purpose
    To inform
    To describe
    To persuade
    To explain
    To activate
    To entertain
    To forge connection

    Audience
    R

    Real
    Imagined
    Implied
    Invoked

    To highlight differences

    Imagine the triangle above as enmeshed in its CONTEXT. That context is:
    social
    historical
    political
    ideological
    cultural
    geographical, etc.

    Thanks to Prof. Jackie Royster, Ohio State University, for this handout.

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