In her Ted Talk, Stella Young gave the audience her perspective. She talks about living as a disabled woman, and how disabled individuals have been stereotyped into becoming symbols for inspiration. Young believes this to be an issue because she doesnât believe being disabled is an awful thing, nor does she believe that itâs worth getting an achievement for. Youngâs discourse community are the disabled community that donât want to be stereotyped. The recipient of this speech seems to be outside of Youngâs discourse community because Stella Young is informing the audience that she is not there to inspire them.
In Mary Wollstonecraftâs dedicatory letter, she describes the situation women of 1792 were living in at the time. They were considered less important compared to the males of this time. Wollstonecraft saw this as an issue because she herself was a woman and believed women deserve rights equal to that of a man. After reading this letter I believe the discourse community Wollstonecraft is apart of would be advocates of womenâs rights. The recipient seems to be on the opposite side of Wollstonecraftâs discourse community.
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