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The secret life of pronouns : what our words say about us / James W. Pennebaker.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2013Copyright date: ©2011Description: xii, 352 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1608194965
  • 9781608194964
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 425.55 23
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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Includes bibliographical references (pages 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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