We Are What We Say in ‘The Secret Life of Pronouns’

The Takeaway

People in 2011 have more ways to communicate now than ever before, and how we communicate says a lot about who we are.  We tweet, we text, we chat online. And every word has a particular significance – maybe even more than we often realize. In his new book, “The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say About Us,”  social psychologist  James Pennebaker explains how the language we use reveals more about us that we realize.

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