The secret life of pronouns
Subtitle: what our words say about us
By: James W. Pennebaker
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9781608194803
Subjects: Grammar; English language; Pronoun
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-333) and index.
Table of contents: title: Discovering the secret life of the most forgettable words; title: Ignoring the content, celebrating the style; title: The words of sex, age, and power; title: Personality: finding the person within; title: Emotion detection; title: Lying words; title: The language of status, power, and leadership; title: The language of love; title: Seeing groups, companies, and communities through their words; title: Word sleuthing; title: Appendix: a handy guide for spotting and interpreting function words in the wild.