Stock of Knowledge

Here in the text, genre doesn’t specifically imply a style but rather classifying rhetoric based on approach (action). However, those approaches are influenced by situations where discourse is occurring. For instance, the text states that “eulogies, courtroom speeches” are delivered due to the elements that surround which they are being heard (152). Quite frankly you won’t hear a eulogy anywhere else where the environment isn’t melancholy.
 
Situations meaning not of what we perceive socially, but rather, what we we define socially. Basically, our past experiences/encounters define our various interpretations of present affairs. Page 156, Alfred Schutz says that we are guided by a “stock of knowledge”; and those “stocks” can induce more “stocks” which all show in our language and how we speak. How language is changing is all true, just look at how our diction changes every decade.“It is through the process of typification that we create recurrence, analogies, similarities” (157). This is interesting, it's like our knowledge stems from a giant nexus. Miller goes on to discussion “exigence” and it's complexity. He better describes it as a social motive to address issues in the rhetorical sense. For example, Harriet B. Stowe's exigence would be of creating the novel of Uncle Tom's Cabin to address the evils of slave-holding. She's able to create a tale addressing the “danger, ignorance & separateness” that existed (158).

Work Cited
Miller, Carolyn. “Green as Social Action.” Quarterly Journal of Speech 70 (1984): 151-169