The way that discourse community influence warrants is they are both a shared belief of a group but the way that it influences warrants is by showing the values that are tied together.
writer: John Tyler Morgan
- Writer: John Tyler Morgan Tennessee born, Alabama, lawyer, multiple political parties, was a confederate general, becomes senator to Alabama served for 30 years. Defeats Blair Bill, which was for funding to the south for public education. Defeats the Force Bill.
- Issue: The Race Question in the United States (citizenship and voting rights)
- The Gap: he said that black people were meant to be slaves, says that it was all arranged by the hand of the Creator, God. Naturalists. He doesn’t think fence-sitters understand that whites will always be superior because black people were slaves, therefor the education would be wasted because they are naturally inferior.
- Readers: Fence-sitters (white),
- Massanarchy: suspicion and panic and fear. using EMOTIONAL APPEAL
- Claim: whites should remain superior
- Reasons: unwelcome into white family. in you interbreed you will have inferior offspring.
- Rhetorical appeal, emotional appeal: making reader feel, motivates the reader to a particular action. Ethos appeal: trust the writer through the persona he creates.
- Reason appeal: logic: claim, reason, evidence.
- Style: word choice, jargon, metaphor, similie
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