The secret life of pronouns

Today, the postman brought a book I had ordered after reading an excerpt of it in the New Scientist: The Secret Life of Pronouns - What Our Words Say About Us by James W. Pennebaker. Pennebaker analyses how the small and seemingly meaningless words in everyday speech and writing, such as I, you, the, one, can actually reveal quite a lot about the person who is using them. As I am myself very much interested in the psychology of words, I was instantly drawn to his findings and I am looking forward to finding out more about it all.

The dedication, by the way, is quite wonderful and you can read more about it in my blog.