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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
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#1 We have always been compelled to communicate our ideas, experiences, and emotions to those around us. Twitter is a great example of how we can do this. Each tweet is like a fingerprint, revealing something about the person who wrote it.
#2 We can now analyze tweets and Facebook updates, emails, letters, and books, and the words from everyday life to determine how people are portraying their personalities, emotions, and connections with others.
#3 The secret life of words is the study of how words affect our lives and the lives of those around us. Words can be toxic if they are kept secret, but they can also be healing if they are shared.
#4 The reason writing works is that it allows people to process their emotions and find meaning in their traumatic experiences. It helps them resolve their emotional turmoil.

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Publié par	Everest Media LLC
Date de parution	01 mai 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781669398233
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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Insights on James W. Pennebaker's The Secret Life of Pronouns
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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

We have always been compelled to communicate our ideas, experiences, and emotions to those around us. Twitter is a great example of how we can do this. Each tweet is like a fingerprint, revealing something about the person who wrote it.

#2

We can now analyze tweets and Facebook updates, emails, letters, and books, and the words from everyday life to determine how people are portraying their personalities, emotions, and connections with others.

#3

The secret life of words is the study of how words affect our lives and the lives of those around us. Words can be toxic if they are kept secret, but they can also be healing if they are shared.

#4

The reason writing works is that it allows people to process their emotions and find meaning in their traumatic experiences. It helps them resolve their emotional turmoil.

#5

The idea behind LIWC was that the words people used would reflect their feelings. By counting the words in a person’s trauma essay, we could gain insights into their emotional states.

#6

Word counting programs, such as LIWC, are used to analyze text and document files. They are very fast and reliable, but they are also very stupid. They can’t detect irony or sarcasm, and they are singularly lacking in a sense of humor.

#7

LIWC is a probabilistic system that classifies words according to their anger and negative-emotion definitions. It is a useful tool for researchers, but it is not suitable for linguists and literary scholars, who care about language and literature.

#8

The entire purpose of developing LIWC was to see if the ways people wrote about their traumatic experiences could predict later improvements in their health. Several expressive writing studies had been conducted, and now we could get a computer program to find which word categories were associated with healthy writing.

#9

A rough measure of people’s emotional state can be found by counting words in their trauma essays that signify positive emotion and negative emotion. The more people use positive emotions while writing about emotional upheavals, the more their physical and mental health improves in the weeks and months after the experiment.

#10

The word count program allowed participants to identify word categories that reflected their active thinking. People who improved the most began using higher rates of cognitive words on the final day of writing.

#11

The use of function words, such as pronouns, prepositions, and articles, can reveal writing style. The more people changed in their use of these words from writing to writing, the more their health improved.

#12

Perspective switching is a common occurrence in psychotherapy. If a man visits his therapist and begins complaining about his wife’s behavior, the therapist will probably stop him after several minutes and ask him how he feels about it. Similarly, if a woman visits her therapist and spends most of her time talking about her own thoughts, feelings, and behaviors without ever talking about her spouse, the therapist will probably redirect the conversation.

#13

The use of words to reflect psychological state is not a startling revelation. However, the findings point to ways we can use word analyses to change people’s thinking. Words can be both mirrors and tools.

#14

LIWC is a program that allows you to analyze the words that people use, and it has revealed many interesting patterns. For example, women and men use language differently, and there are big differences in the way people use words based on age, social class, and emotional state.

#15

The way we use words is a window into the inner workings of people. It is a fascinating and revealing way to think about language and its links to the world around us.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

The ways people write about the same event or drawing can be very different. The words that people use to describe the same event or drawing can also be very different, which can give us a glimpse into their personalities.

#2

The words we use can tell us a lot about our personality, age, sex, social class, stress levels, biological activity, and social relationships. By analyzing these clues, we can get a glimpse of each author’s personal world.

#3

Style is the way in which we present ourselves to the world. It is reflected in our speech, writing, and demeanor. It can be used to describe the way we walk, the way we dress, and the way we eat an orange.

#4

Style words are words that connect, shape, and organize content words. They are usually referred to as function words, stealth words, or even junk words. They have no meaning by themselves.

#5

Stealth words are used at very high rates, are short and hard to detect, are processed in the brain differently than content words, and are very social.

#6

The most frequently used words in Abraham Lincoln’s famous Gettysburg Address are function words, which are far more frequent than any content words.

#7

The word I is the most common word in English, and it is used 3. 6 percent of all words. If we consider these twenty words together, they represent almost 30 percent of all words that people use, read, and hear.

#8

The split between content words and function words is similar in other languages. The top one hundred stealth words are easy to learn, but you would have no idea what you were reading.

#9

The most common words in every language are usually short and easy to pronounce. They are hard to perceive and difficult to remember. To test your ability to listen to and remember words, try paying attention to people’s use of style versus content words.

#10

The use of I-words is associated with being honest and personal, while we-words sound cold, rigid, and emotionally distant. It is difficult to master the use of function words after about age twelve.

#11

The distinction between style and content words can be seen in people who suffer from brain damage. If a person has a stroke or other brain injury that affects a highly specific location on the left side of the brain, he or she can lose the ability to use content words but still retain the ability to use function words.

#12

The frontal lobe is linked to personality and social behaviors, and it is not surprising that any language areas in the frontal lobe are also related to personality and social behaviors.

#13

The use of function words, which are the words that express action, is related to our social lives.

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