The secret life of pronouns : what our words say about us / James W. Pennebaker.
By: Pennebaker, James W.
New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2013Edition: 1st U.S. ed.Description: xii, 352 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 9781608194964.Subject(s): English language -- Pronoun | English language -- GrammarGenre/Form: Print books.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| On Shelf | PE1261 .P46 2013 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU0000000009009 |
Includes bibliographical references 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.