The secret life of pronouns what our words say about us

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.

Record details

ISBN: 9781608194971 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 1608194973 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (xii, 352 p.) : ill.
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Publisher: New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2011.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-333) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.