As a rhetorician he is best known for the concept of "the rhetorical situation."

Depending on the rhetorical situation, certain types of language are needed.

A user-centered design is focused around the rhetorical situation.

The rhetorical situation shapes the design of an information medium.

Two leading views of the rhetorical situation exist today.

A critic could also determine what the text wants that audience to become or do after the rhetorical situation.

More importantly, Miller takes on the bigger picture of a rhetorical situation in which all of these steps happen.

In other words, genre and rhetorical situations are reciprocals of one another.

It encompasses the same elements as, "rhetorical situation", but is a more active concept.

These characteristics mean that legal language is always subject to the interpretation of the reader, thus creating a rhetorical situation.