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What Word Is You?

December 27, 2023 by Katie Musgrave in Language, Impression, Image

Word associations have powerful effects.

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December 27, 2023 /Katie Musgrave
Word, Association, Connotation, Hinterland, Lexical Field, Impression, Image, Identity, Brand, Self
Language, Impression, Image

Language Devices: The Rule of Three

October 26, 2022 by Katie Musgrave in Language, Image, Impression, Persuasion

The device is employed to have a reinforcing effect on the receiver.

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October 26, 2022 /Katie Musgrave
Rule of Three, Language, Device, Rhetoric, Speech, Tripod, Tricolon, Triadic Structure, Reinforcing, Effect, Rishi Sunak, Image, Impression, Stability
Language, Image, Impression, Persuasion

Great Lines: Antony and Cleopatra

May 18, 2022 by Katie Musgrave in Craft, Language, Writing

As Shakespeare reimagined, in refusing to be mastered, Cleopatra mastered herself.

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May 18, 2022 /Katie Musgrave
Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, Cleopatra, Language, Image, Irony
Craft, Language, Writing

'The thing with Dickie'

Oxford
October 25, 2018 by Katie Musgrave in Idea

In any given social media interaction, we are Tom Ripley, craving audience approval. When we have it, we are sustained by its sunshine; when we don’t, we are lost in the shadows.

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October 25, 2018 /Katie Musgrave
Image, Identity, Attention, Social media
Idea

'Fresh face to the world'

Oxford
August 08, 2018 by Katie Musgrave in Action

In youth, it's easy to admire the fantasy of effortless beauty. It's also easy to take youthfulness for granted.

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August 08, 2018 /Katie Musgrave
Self-care, Skin, Image
Action

On Self-Styling

Oxford
July 26, 2018 by Katie Musgrave in Action, Impression, Media

Thanks to social media and the current acceleration of identity politics, our engagement with self-styling is near constant.

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July 26, 2018 /Katie Musgrave
Language, Image, Social media, Politics, Style, Self
Action, Impression, Media


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