Blog #3

The writer of this reading is Jenny Edbauer and she’s from Austin, Texas. The primary audience of this text is the general public. I think this because throughout the reading Edbauer talks about how our discourse and speaking in front of audiences is almost too simple and that is just doesn’t work for our language speaking to one another. She made an example using a triangle connecting what is wrong with our discourse, “The triangle of sender, receiver, text misses the concentrations that come to constitute Warner’s version of a public.” She then states at the end of this topic that, “In order to rethink rhetorical publicness as a context of interaction therefore, this article proposes an augmentation to our popular conceptual frameworks of rhetorical situation.” This meaning when and where the rhetorical situation happens. She thinks that the ecological model will allow us to more fully theorize rhetoric as a public creation. Edbauer thinks that rhetoric discourse (conversations) are more complex and that they can’t compare to a public speaker or someone talking to an audience because it can’t capture everyone’s minds in the same way. The main message that Edbauer is trying to get across is that when talking about places that connect with a rhetorical situation, she argues that it is the person that influences the place which can influences the rhetorical situation. Although that isn’t the right description how places and rhetorical situations combine, that’s how she puts it together in her mind. The texts primary rhetorical purpose is to persuade. Edbauer throughout the text tries to persuade her audience that it is within a smaller and more compact discourse than a public speaking to involve good rhetoric dialouge and I agree with Edbauer. She also tries to persuade her audience by writing that it is the person who influences that place of where the rhetorical situation will occur.