Linguistics meets politics

Certainly, this is not the first overlay of linguistics and politics.  If you ever have a chance to see a talk by Noam Chomsky, you won't be disappointed.  Well, technically he doesn't always overlay the two topics - but he's a phenomenal linguist and someone who synthesizes politics topics phenomenally too.

But this article on diagramming sentences uttered by Sarah Palin is entirely worthwhile.

(note:  While it's not where I ended up, I took a lot of linguistics courses during grad school.)

Comments

[Kat]

Thanks for the link. That was very entertaining. I love diagramming sentences.