Voice in speech
Sep 24, 2026
⋮⋮ Program
- 08.35 Crossword puzzles
- 09.05 The Rhetorical Situation
- 09.35 Break
- 09.50 Speech-making
- 10.20 Speech-reading
- 10.40 Break
- 10.50 Rhetorical analysis
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 can not?
Apologies
Speech-making
- Find information about the United Nations
- Find information about what happened in Christchurch on the 15th of March 2019.
- Work in pairs and prepare a speech which lasts two minutes and which includes the most important aspects of the information you found.
Rhetorical analysis
- What is the purpose of this speech?
- Who are the mediators of change?
- If change is to happen, how should Jacinda Adern speak? What should she avoid?
- Find four quotations that you found interesting and reflect on why they caught your attention.