The Secret Life of Pronouns : : What our Words say About us

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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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linguistics is so interesting submitted by calinescus on August 17, 2015, 3:02pm fascinating

More Psychology than Linguistics submitted by Tee Chuan on August 3, 2016, 2:15pm This book is more about social psychology than linguistics. Think more Malcolm Gladwell-style writing than academic writing.
While interesting for the layperson, a person who has academic interest in sociolinguistics may leave unfulfilled.