The secret life of pronouns : what our words say about us / James W. Pennebaker.
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TextPublication details: New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2011.Edition: 1st U.S. edDescription: xii, 352 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN: - 9781608194803
- 1608194809
- 425 PEN 22nd
- PE1261 .P46 2011
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-333) and index.
Discovering the secret life of the most forgettable words -- Ignoring the content, celebrating the style -- The words of sex, age, and power -- Personality: finding the person within -- Emotion detection -- Lying words -- The language of status, power, and leadership -- The language of love -- Seeing groups, companies, and communities through their words -- Word sleuthing -- Appendix: a handy guide for spotting and interpreting function words in the wild.
Draws on groundbreaking research in computational linguistics to explain what language choices reveal about feelings, self-concept, and social intelligence, in a lighthearted treatise that also explores the language personalities of famous individuals.
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