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Tuesday 1 July 2014

The power of marketing language

Language + you

Ouch.

Watch this.

http://www.upworthy.com/no-one-applauds-this-woman-because-theyre-too-creeped-out-at-themselves-to-put-their-hands-together

2 comments:

  1. I feel we are more influenced by the images on/of products in ads rather than the language actually used,its as if the context of the language used,is dependent/altered by the images that are paired with it.

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  2. I agree that an image can guide us to interpret language in one way rather than another. The Ordinary Muslim memes wouldn't work otherwise see my post on sentence set-ups).

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