Analysis Of Kennedy's Epideictic Discourse

This speech includes three different types of discourses, which are deliberative, epidictic, and forensics. In particular, the most prominent discourse is deliberative discourse. Here, I am going to analyze this speech in chronological order. At first, this speech is the response against the action of the Soviet Union that they located its armament in Cuba. At the beginning, Kennedy strongly accused the Soviet Union. In this speech, Kennedy (1962) addressed “that statement was false” and “that statement also was false” in a minute after he revealed the official statement by the Soviet Government. This series of comments is the epideictic discourse against the Soviet Union. Aristotle (1954) explains that the epideictic discourse is used to
This is also the epideictic discourse. Through the epideictic discourse, he attempted to enhance the legitimacy of the following governmental policy against the Soviet Union and to increase the interest of the audience because the epideictic discourse can improve the quality of the speech. In the middle of the speech, Kennedy (1962) announced the seven steps as counterplan again the Soviet Union. He mentioned at third, for example, “it shall be the policy of this Nation to regard any nuclear missile launched from Cuba against any nation in the Western Hemisphere as an attack by the Soviet Union on the United State, requiring a full retaliatory response upon the Soviet Union”. This series of statements is sorted to deliberative discourse. After he described the seven steps, he accused the Cuban leaders, who approved the action of the Soviet Union, through the epideictic oratory. He claims “your nationalist revolution was betrayed”. This remark was directed particularly to the Cuban citizens. Therefore, he also commented “I have no doubt that most Cubans today look forward to the time when they will be truly free” in order to emphasize that the Government of the United States is in the supportive position to the Cuban