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

By:

Pennebaker, James W [author.]

Material type: Text

text

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unmediated

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volume

ISBN:

1608194965
9781608194964

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DDC classification:

425.55 23

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Contributor biographical information

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.

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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