musings for speech 111

passive agreement speech type

I understand that a speech to gain passive agreement is designed to convince an audience that a given policy is acceptable without audience action taken in support of the policy. What I don't really understand is why a speaker would use this type of persuasive speech. I think the speaker would want to get the audience involved in his persuasion. It seems to me about all the speaker would accomplish is gaining self-affirmation, and perhaps present a forum for discussion, which would probably fall under the category of informative speech.

posted by kevin @ 11:39 AM