Blog Entry 3

Bitzer defines rhetorical situation as a way to provoke action and to be social. It invites a response but not just any response, it needs a fitting response to the situation. Some of the key terms that go with rhetorical situation are audience, constraint, exigence, and action. I think that rhetorical situation is used to get people to think and provoke change. I think a speech would be an example that uses rhetorical situation. A speech addresses can address an issue and produce action in the mean time. This is also how genre and rhetorical situation connect. Genre can start the coversation and communication, rhetorical situation then inspires the change that needs to happen.