Inventing Brand Names
Michael Rosen and Dr Laura Wright look into how new commercial brand names are invented.
Word of Mouth · BBC Radio 4
October 12, 201527m 49s
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Show Notes
Michael Rosen & Dr Laura Wright look into how new commercial brand names are invented, with Greg Rowland, the semiotician who came up with the name of a new perfume for Calvin Klein. Which words and sounds work, and which don't, and why? Professor Will Leben talks about how his company came up with the name Blackberry, and the uses of sound symbolism. Producer Beth O'Dea.