Rhetorical situation and genre are connected in that the way
in which the person (writing in rhetorical situation) writes will go under a
number of different genres. Genre, in this context, is simply a form of
literature. In order for rhetorical situation to be effective, it needs a
number of things. Those things include the writer, a purpose, an audience, a
topic (amongst different genres), and context. Another thing that a rhetorical
situation entails is a problem in the world that can feasibly be fixed by the “audience”,
or by a human. Bitzer defined it as “A complex of persons, events, objects, and
relations presenting an actual or potential exigence which can be completely or
partially removed if discourse, introduced into the situation, can so constrain
human decision or action as to bring about the significant modification of the
exigence.” That exigence can be under any group of things, this
connecting it to the term genre. Understanding that when someone (writer) introduces a global issue to a group of people (audience) in hopes that he (writer) can persuade that group of people (audience) to come together and act upon that issue, that can help give us a better understanding of everyday writing.
Rhetorical Situation refers to how someone uses language or the different words a writer might use to make their writing more effective. Genres are the different types of writing and the qualities which they contain.The connection I see between genre and rhetorical situation is that they depend on each other. A genre is basically an element of Rhetorical situation. If i want to persuade an audience I would need to know what genre of writing would be most effective when writing my speech.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Phil example about persuade an audience about a global situation. that is true.