Exigences are extremely important to rhetoric because they pertain to analyzing any rhetorical situation., but they don't work alone in analyzing a rhetorical situation.
"Every rhetorical situation has three constituents: exigence, audience, and constraints" and identifying/ analyzing each component is important to understand the situation (Gorrell 395). Each constituent needs to be analyzed because they all work together in the situation. There are many different ideas on the overall purpose of all of them together with an emphasis on the role of the rhetor. Gorrell states in "The Rhetorical Situation Again Linked Components in a Venn Diagram that "the topics but the rhetor in control, not to create exigence, audience, and constraints, but to discover and manage the particularities of novel situations and once experiencing them, to discover and formulate a means of disclosing them" (398). Certain rhetoricians might say that the rhetor does create the rhetorical situation. Although there are various views on the rhetor's role, all can agree that there is a clear relationship between the three constituents.
Exigences are the problems that need to be addressed and the overall purpose of delivering the speech or writing the article or book. The audience is also very important because the exigences have to be brought up in a certain way according to the particular audience. Many different factors influence how the rhetor is going to approach the exigences such as the age, religion, ethnicity, and the relationship that the rhetor has with the audience. Constraints also fit in with how the rhetor address the exigences. Constraints are obstacles that the rhetor has to overcome in order to deliver the speech or discuss the exigences in some way such as the reputation of the rhetor and the view that the audience has of her/him.
The audience might overlook the need to fix or bring light to these problems if the rhetor completely ignores the constraints. In "Rhetorical Exigence," author Arthur Miller states that the "ultimate perceived nature of the exigence depends on the constraints of the perceiver" (112). The audience has the ability to determine whether the exigences brought up by the rhetor are of importance; therefore, they hold the power to actually change this problem or set of problems mentioned. Miller also states that the "perceived exigence will not be identical for the critic, rhetor, and audience" because of the certain epistemologies (the way we think or how we know what we know) that people hold (117-118).
"Every rhetorical situation has three constituents: exigence, audience, and constraints" and identifying/ analyzing each component is important to understand the situation (Gorrell 395). Each constituent needs to be analyzed because they all work together in the situation. There are many different ideas on the overall purpose of all of them together with an emphasis on the role of the rhetor. Gorrell states in "The Rhetorical Situation Again Linked Components in a Venn Diagram that "the topics but the rhetor in control, not to create exigence, audience, and constraints, but to discover and manage the particularities of novel situations and once experiencing them, to discover and formulate a means of disclosing them" (398). Certain rhetoricians might say that the rhetor does create the rhetorical situation. Although there are various views on the rhetor's role, all can agree that there is a clear relationship between the three constituents.
Exigences are the problems that need to be addressed and the overall purpose of delivering the speech or writing the article or book. The audience is also very important because the exigences have to be brought up in a certain way according to the particular audience. Many different factors influence how the rhetor is going to approach the exigences such as the age, religion, ethnicity, and the relationship that the rhetor has with the audience. Constraints also fit in with how the rhetor address the exigences. Constraints are obstacles that the rhetor has to overcome in order to deliver the speech or discuss the exigences in some way such as the reputation of the rhetor and the view that the audience has of her/him.
The audience might overlook the need to fix or bring light to these problems if the rhetor completely ignores the constraints. In "Rhetorical Exigence," author Arthur Miller states that the "ultimate perceived nature of the exigence depends on the constraints of the perceiver" (112). The audience has the ability to determine whether the exigences brought up by the rhetor are of importance; therefore, they hold the power to actually change this problem or set of problems mentioned. Miller also states that the "perceived exigence will not be identical for the critic, rhetor, and audience" because of the certain epistemologies (the way we think or how we know what we know) that people hold (117-118).