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The secret life of pronouns : what our words say about us / / by: Bloomsbury Press

By: Pennebaker, James WMaterial type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: New York : Bloomsbury Press 2011Edition: 1st U.S. editionDescription: xii, 352 p. ill. 25 cmISBN: 9781608194803; 1608194809Subject(s): English language -- Pronoun | English language -- Grammar | ინგლისური ენაDDC classification: 425/.55 LOC classification: PE1261 | .P46 2011Online resources: Contributor biographical information | Publisher description
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 (p. 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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