1. When Bitzer speaks of rhetorical situations, he does not mean that it is an issue of getting an audience to understand a speech,or that rhetoric occurs in a setting which involves interaction of the speaker, audience, subject, or communicative purpose. Blitzer aslo feels that rhetorical situations are meant to be persuasive or that it should be embedded in historic context.
2. Bitzer believes that rhetorical situations are not an idle one, and that it is a discourse that comes into existence as a response to a situation, it also must exist as a necessary condition for rhetorical discourse. It is also defined 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.
3. Exigence is "imperfection marked by urgency", one example is could be a school air conditioning system out of order an needing to be fixed.
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I think you're right that an air conditioning systenm that stops working creates exigency (especially if the outdoor temperature is not something people are comfortable with). One thing Bitzer would say is that this, does not by itself constitute a rhetorical situation unless this problem can be fixed through discourse (talking).
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