Description

This episode focuses on context, the element of rhetorical situation that includes the factors going on in the world that can impact our text.  In particular, we'll focus on time, place, community, and culture.

Transcript available through this link.

Additional Resources:

• Purdue OWL's "Setting." 
• "Discourse Community" from College Composition and Communication (Note: The link leads to a pdf file.)
• Dan Melzer's "Understanding Discourse Communities" from Writing Spaces (Note: The link leads to a pdf copy of the essay.) 
• Wikipedia "High-context and low-context cultures."   
• Silva Rhetoricae's "Kairos" (Note:  Kairos is a rhetorical term meaning the appropriateness of a piece of communication.  Context affects appropriateness.)

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