The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say About Us, Library Edition

from rivkat

Free LibraryThing Early Reviewer copy. Basic thesis: knowing how often people use pronouns, articles, helper verbs, and other countable things can predict a lot about them. This is an easy read, and has some surprises: people who use "I" a lot are more likely to be low-status than high, whereas "...

from etsmith

What can you know about me from analyzing this review? As it turns out, quite a lot. Professor Pennebaker has devoted much of his career to linking word patterns to individual characteristics. Pronoun patterns in particular tip off the savvy analyst to the writer's gender, for example. A psycholo...

from Meggo

An interesting look at what subtext is provided by our choice of words. Ultimately the book is merely an academic exercise for those of us without multi-million dollar linguistic analysis software, but the learnings obtained from a linguistic analysis of many disparate sources including blogs and...

from bruce_krafft

I was prepared to be bored by this book. Why? Well because so many books promising similar things have been boring, dull, and anything by interesting. I can say that I was very happily proven WRONG - right away. This book is fascinating, and is written in a very engaging manner. You will be readi...

from LynnB

The reviews by those lucky enough to have received this book from LT's Early Reviewers Program are very good. Let me just add my two cents' worth by saying that I loved this book. It is well-written, engaging, easy and fun to read and absolutely fascinating!