I think Wollstonecraft’s discourse community is women under the Autun community. She wants equality between men and women by granting them a freedom of education. Her intended audience is the bishop of Autun to edit the constitution. She claims women will be better of in society by having knowledge in how to be virtuous, understanding duty and patriotism.
I think Young’s discourse community is people with disabilities. The recipient of her speech is everyone without a disability. She argues that she and everyone else who has a disability are not inspirational and shouldn’t he looked up to for things humans can do. She urges them to stop congratulating individuals with disabilities for normal tasks and instead to embrace them and consider them like everyone else. One situation she mentions is her job. One of her students had asked her when she was going to give her inspirational speech. Just because she’s in a wheelchair she explains doesn’t mean she can’t just be a regular teacher. And people should stop having to applaud someone with a disability for doing something mundane.
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