Title:
The secret life of pronouns : what our words say about us / James W. Pennebaker.
ISBN:
9781608194803
Personal Author:
Edition:
First U.S. edition.
Publication Information:
New York, NY : Bloomsbury Press, 2011.
Physical Description:
xii, 352 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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,
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.
OCLC Number:
ocn682894538
Availability:
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