Read Robert F. Kennedy’s Remarks on the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. (Found here https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/rfkonmlkdeath.html ).
Demographics, culture, and psychology: Consult and cite at least one outside source to determine who his audience was on that day and then determine what the demographics, cultures, and psychologies would likely be.
Referring to the speech text, explain:
1. how demographics would influence Kennedy’s rhetorical choices.
2. how culture would influence Kennedy’s rhetorical choices. In particular, explain how he adapted to cultural diversity.
3. how audience psychology would influence Kennedy’s rhetorical choices. In particular, explain his efforts at identification (with specific reference to the text of the speech).
4. how does Kennedy manage time as a constraint and a resource in his speech?
5. how would you assess Kennedy’s ethos in this speech?
Requirements
Cite at least two scholarly sources (and the Chuang and Hart article below) to support your argument.
Lisa M. Chuang & John P. Hart (2008) Suburban American Punks and the Musical Rhetoric of Green Day’s Jesus of Suburbia, Communication Studies, 59:3, 183-201, DOI: 10.1080/10510970802257499
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