Angus's view of the rhetorical situation is based on an image of community forming and learning. His portable handbook addresses social movements and democracy, which he invites his readers to bring their arguments to the table. It is clear that we as people need to spend more time discussing and affirming laws, values, norms, and especially governmental concerns. In this cause democracy does seem to be a radical concept. I mean people can slow things down, forfeiting democracy so few people can rule, and then the wide range of power had disintegrated. All because people have no time or care to little? Now considering this, according to Angus people should come together and determine the to-do's for democracy across assembly halls and universities world wide, he's putting the cart before the horse. Personally I think educating others on democracy is necessary, for more then some are completely ignorant and do leave the power in just few dominant hands. Helping others to form their own opinion on the right issues could change how we embrace democracy as a people.
Lakoff discusses language and discourse to the extent of showing the reader how to determine if there is more than one meaning to a concept or concepts to a meaning. We make choices of what we want to say in words in our everyday language which effect conveyance of meaning. I love the example of the apology, who really likes to say they’re sorry or admit they were wrong. There are ways to imply those meanings without using the exact pervious words like. “Wow, you were right,” acknowledging that you were wrong by telling the other they were right- not directly saying, “I was wrong.” I thought she was a structuralist in her way of breaking down language and word connotations, as I argued in class; my argument was shut down… I guess I still have more to interpret and analyze myself.
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