| Edition |
1st U.S. ed. |
| Physical description |
xii, 352 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-333) and index. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
English language -- Pronoun.
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English language -- Grammar.
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| ISBN |
9781608194803 (hardback) |
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1608194809 (hardback) |
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