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Sep 15, 2026
⋮⋮ Program
- 12.05 The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved
- 13.30 The Rhetorical Situation
- 13.45 Break
- 14.00 Apologies
- 14.15 The Kentucky situation
- 15.00 Exit ticket
The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved
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The Rhetorical Situation
- Exigence What is the (real) purpose of the text? What is the speaker/writer trying to achieve/change? A situation becomes rhetorical once you believe that you can change something in life by uttering something.
- Audience Who is the text meant for? What is the medium, and who is the specific audience of this medium? What is their social background, political and religious belief, age, nationality, gender, ethnicity, etc.? The will be the mediators of change who can act on the exigence (i.e. do something about the issue).
- Constraints The rhetorical situation will have som limitations and possibilities related to the context, the speaker/writer, and the mediators of change. These are the constraints. To make a change as likely as possible, what can then be said? What cannot?
Apologies
The Kentucky Situation
- Describe the exigence, audience, and constraints of The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved.
Exit ticket
- Write one sentence (a topic sentence), explaining the rhetorical situation of The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved