ENGL101B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting, Rhetorical Situation, Gun Control

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL101B
• Professor: Virginia Shay

Document Summary

Data gathering points: audience, speaker, occasion, exigence, constraints. Who has vested interest in what they"re saying? o. Publication (mass media --> printing press --> 1500s) Sandy hook shooting: at the school, newtown, connecticut. Targeted audience: victims" families, people in newtown. Other audiences: gun control debate o. In response to a mass shooting --> worst for child victims. Kairos: the right moment; the opportune time. Incite action, commemorate, pay tribute, comfort agitate, provoke to thought/action. Refers to an urgent need or a problem in the world. Rhetorical context of exigence: persuading others to agree. That a particular course of action needs to be taken. Exigence: what is the speech attempting to accomplish: why is a speech the appropriate response to the occasion? o. Event can"t be changed --> speech attempts to offer something. May limit in our faith in speaker? o. Limited in tactics how he presents himself. Inartistic (extrinsic)proofs - hard facts, evidence, fate, etc.