Discourses: How to Explain Your Job to Different People

Sometimes, just sometimes, College Humor has something academic to offer. The following comic is a great illustration for explaining how the idea of discourse community works: we use different languages to communicate with different groups of audience. Okay, I have done enough damage to a non-academic material already. Here you go:

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Image source: College Humor (see more similar comics)

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