Stephanie felt uncomfortable when she gave her first speech in class. She was the only African-American in her class; all the other students were white. She had been raised in a neighborhood in St. Louis that was predominantly African-American,
and she was
accustomed to frequent audience responses that meant involvement with and support of the
speaker. When her classmates sat there passively without saying a word and making few
facial expressions, she felt they were bored, perhaps even hostile. Before her second speech,
she continually told herself, ?They don?t mean to be rude or disinterested, they just have
different cultural rules for appropriate behavior during a speech.? This helped her feel more
confident during her speech. Stephanie was using which method of adapting to the audience?
A) bafflegabs B) self-talk C) empathizing D) visualization
B
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A. practical reasoning B. comparative reasoning C. legal reasoning D. analogical reasoning E. functional reasoning
Consider the following description of the critical argument in
Dow, B.J. (1989). The function of epideictic and deliberative strategies in presidential crisis rhetoric. Western Journal of Speech Communication, 53, 294-310. "In this essay, I attempt to describe the different functions performed by instances of crisis rhetoric that are products of different situations. I argue that 1) study of crisis discourse should be informed by an understanding of the differing exigencies that give rise to it, 2) different crisis situations call for different rhetorical responses, and 3) the most fruitful way for critics to analyze crisis rhetoric is to begin with an understanding of how the rhetoric functions to respond to the exigence of the situation" (p. 295) From what rhetorical tradition is this argument framed? a. The rhetorical tradition b. The social tradition c. The cultural tradition d. The critical tradition
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What will be an ideal response?
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