Pentadic Criticism Ronald Regan, Address to the Nation following the Explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger (1986)

March 3, 2024March 3, 2024 Discipline: Communications and Media
  1. Ronald Regan, Address to the Nation following the Explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger (1986) https://youtu.be/66mGwws7EEw
  2. What is the rhetor’s purpose?  (Remember that for speeches, the rhetor is the speaker.)

  3. Identify each of the following pentadic elements in the speech:
    • Act
    • Agent
    • Agency
    • Scene
    • Purpose

  4. Assess the ratios between these elements, as modeled in your textbook (Foss, pp. 327-376):

    Scene-act
    Scene-agent
    Scene-agency
    Scene-purpose

    Act-scene
    Act-agent
    Act-agency
    Act-purpose

    		 Agent-scene
    Agent-act
    Agent-agency
    Agent-purpose

    Agency-scene
    Agency-act
    Agency-agent
    Agency-purpose

    		 Purpose-scene
    Purpose-act
    Purpose-agent
    Purpose-agency
  5. What is/are the dominant term(s)?  What does this tell us about the speaker’s motivation for delivering this speech?

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