What are reformative strategies?
- Doesn’t attempt to change the audience’s understanding or feelings about the indiscretion
- Denial and Bolstering
If a speaker uses a reformative strategy, is she trying to influence the public’s view of the nature of the offense or of the offender?
She is NOT trying to influence the publics view
If a speaker uses a transformative strategy, is he trying to influence the public’s view of the nature of the offense or of the offender?
The speaker IS trying to influence the public’s view of the offense.
What are the four Apologia strategies?
- Denial
- Bolstering
- Transendence
- Differenation
What is a “Posture”?
a particular way of dealing with or considering something; an approach or attitude.
What four postures are described in the readings and which strategies are incorporated in each?
- Absolutive: Denial and Differentiation
- Vindictive: Denial and Transcendence
- Explanative: Bolstering and Differentiation
- Justicative: Bolstering and Transcendence
What are transformative strategies?
- Attempts to change the audience’s interpretation or feelings about the indiscretion
- Transcendence and Differentiation
What is denial?
- “I didn’t do it”
- Reformative Strategy
What is Transcendence?
- “There are more important issues at hand”
- Transformative strategy
What is Differentiation?
- Reframing the act as a less offensive interpretation
- Transformative Strategy
What is Bolstering?
- Stressing one’s positive qualities?
- Reformative Strategy
What strategies are incorprated in Absolutive posture?
Denial and Differentiation
What strategies are incorporated in Vindictive posture?
Denial and Transcendence
What strategies are incorporated in Explanative posture?
Bolstering and Differentiation
What strategies are incorprated in Justicative posture?
Bolstering and Transcendence
