Blog #9

The three constituents that are used in the passage are exigence, audience, and constraints. Bitzer uses exigence as a definition for a situation that cannot be avoided and one must solve it regardless. He then uses a defense attorney as an example of how it works. The DA knows that his client is guilty and could take it to a higher court where the case may be appealed but he has the weigh the odds and sees if they're in his favor. Another example of this would be going to a party. Going to a party could result in meeting the love of your life but it's a risk and it could also result in not meeting anyone significant and end up being boring. Audience is the second as is defined as who the discourse is aimed at. An example of this would be a car. The car was created for the benefit of people to help transportation and connections to be easier to reach. It was created with the thought of the people in mind however they were not used to create the car only to use its benefits. The final constituent is constraints, which is people places or things that can be part of the situation and has the power to constrain the actions needed to modify the exigence. An example of this would be the War speech given by Franklin D. Roosevelt. The message given was a clear exigence easily perceived by one major audience and the constraints was the necessity for war to occur.