The secret life of pronouns what our words say about us

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 -- Seein...

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1. Verfasser: Pennebaker, James W. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: New York, Berlin u.a. Bloomsbury Press 2011
Ausgabe:1. U.S. ed.
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Zusammenfassung: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
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-333) and index
Beschreibung:XII, 352 S.
Ill., graph. Darst.
ISBN:1608194809
1-60819-480-9
9781608194803
978-1-60819-480-3