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Pennebaker James W.
The Secret Life Of Pronouns What Our Words Say About Us
The Secret Life Of Pronouns What Our Words Say About Us
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Description: A surprising and entertaining explanation of how the words we use (even the ones we don't notice) reveal our personalities emotions and identities. In The Secret Life of Pronouns social psychologist and language expert James W. Pennebaker uses his groundbreaking research in computational linguistics - in essence counting the frequency of words we use - to show that our language carries secrets about our feelings our self - concept and our social intelligence. Our most forgettable words such as pronouns and prepositions can be the most revealing: their patterns are as distinctive as fingerprints. Using innovative analytic techniques Pennebaker X - rays everything from John Mc Cain's tweets to the Federalist Papers. Who would have predicted that the high school student who uses too many verbs in her college admissions essay is likely to make lower grades in college? Or that a world leader's use of pronouns could reliably presage whether he will lead his country into war? You'll learn what Lady Gaga and William Butler Yeats have in common and how Ebenezer Scrooge's syntax hints at his self - deception and repressed emotion in this sprightly surprising tour of what our words are saying - whether we mean them to or not.
Title: The Secret Life Of Pronouns What Our Words Say About Us
Author(s): Pennebaker James W.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Barcode: 9781608194964
Pages: 368 Pages, B&W
Language: English
Publication Date: 1/15/2013
Category: Language: History & General Works
Description: A surprising and entertaining explanation of how the words we use (even the ones we don't notice) reveal our personalities emotions and identities. In The Secret Life of Pronouns social psychologist and language expert James W. Pennebaker uses his groundbreaking research in computational linguistics - in essence counting the frequency of words we use - to show that our language carries secrets about our feelings our self - concept and our social intelligence. Our most forgettable words such as pronouns and prepositions can be the most revealing: their patterns are as distinctive as fingerprints. Using innovative analytic techniques Pennebaker X - rays everything from John Mc Cain's tweets to the Federalist Papers. Who would have predicted that the high school student who uses too many verbs in her college admissions essay is likely to make lower grades in college? Or that a world leader's use of pronouns could reliably presage whether he will lead his country into war? You'll learn what Lady Gaga and William Butler Yeats have in common and how Ebenezer Scrooge's syntax hints at his self - deception and repressed emotion in this sprightly surprising tour of what our words are saying - whether we mean them to or not.
Title: The Secret Life Of Pronouns What Our Words Say About Us
Author(s): Pennebaker James W.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Barcode: 9781608194964
Pages: 368 Pages, B&W
Language: English
Publication Date: 1/15/2013
Category: Language: History & General Works