A Walk in the WoRds

Though the original article is over a year old, this photo of a headline from Eastern Michigan University's The Echo just showed up in ...

Just received this hilarious email - It was once said that a black man would be president "when pigs fly." Indeed, 100 days into O...

Will Obama choose a Labradoodle or a Portuguese Water Dog - this was the topic of an article in the April 13th Newsweek. A Labradoodle is th...

Having previously posted about the semiotics of Obama's campaign logo , I found it interesting that the March 16th issue of Newsweek inc...

Posted Friday, January 23, 2009 5:41 PM on Newsweek.com Thanks to Obama, BlackBerry Becomes the Next Kleenex The above headline is com...

As mentioned in a previous post , semiotics is the branch of linguistics that is concerned with the relationship between a sign and what the...

The ubiquitous coverage of Barack Obama's election (including insta-books, quickie documentaries, magazine covers and more) has been du...

From a linguistic point of view it makes perfect sense that Obama won the election. The name Obama is easier and more natural to say than ...

The stand-out political catch phrase of this election year comes from the second presidential debate when McCain referred to Obama as "...