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Class slides, including materials on the concept of relevance linking audience and genres.
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See Topic: Audience for details. • AssumpFons are thoughts that can be expressed in proposiFonal form and are
treated by the individual agent as representaFons of the world, including the states of mind of the agent or others (meta-‐representaFons) and including hypotheFcal proposiFons.
• Goals are consequences (end states or otherwise) desired or unwanted by an agent capable of moFvaFng an agent to acFon.
• Strength is a measure of the agent’s commitment to an assumpFon or goal; in the case of emoFon, it is the depth of feeling the agent has.
• Accessibility: Think of accessibility as how close the assumpFon, goal, or emoFon is “to the surface” of the agent’s thoughts—whether it is “top of mind.”
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By bringing up Pythagoras’ theorem, I have likely made a wide variety of other geometrical facts accessible in your cogniFve environment. For example, if I asked what is the sum of the angles of a triangle or a rectangle, you’d probably now find it easier to answer than if I had not shiYed the frame of your cogniFon to geometry. Communicators do the same all the Fme. When wriFng an introducFon, for example, you want to shiY the frame of the reader’s cogniFve environment to make accessible to him those assumpFons and goals that are most congruent with your purposes.
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Where does genre fit in? Think about how genre interacts with the audience’s interests: • Does it rely on accessible assumpFons and goals of the audience? • Does it respond to the audience’s accessible and strong goals?
Where do poems fit on this table? Important to note that “relevance” is a technical term here, not a cultural evaluaFon. How about the audience that is looking for flaws? Wants to find your problems and knock you down?
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