An all-deaf team at Gallaudet University has created a sign-language storybook app for the iPad. The goal? To improve language acquisition for hearing-impaired kids.

In advertisements, we receive impressions not just from the words on the ad, but also from the images, colors, placement, and other aspects of the scene.

How do Barthes’ linguistic messages apply to comic strips like cancelled favorite Bazooka Joe? By anchoring and relaying meanings through images and text.

An Asian elephant named Koshik has been recorded using his trunk to speak human words – is the elephant trying to communicate in Korean?